Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9022856fe94ecd51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-15 15:47:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fb1b4009062db83c8f5c54618f4c99aa SHA-1: 83daab03ed43233d97d44f0d72db7cef025590f2 SHA-256: 9022856fe94ecd51aacb9f180b5daaf536f661040b252c6fc674d1c5e51e2ae0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDFs hosted on compromised websites. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+can+i+attach+a+pdf+to+a+word+document PDF link annotation
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/kireluwipozaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/gegokagukigerefopuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/molimuzubibuxomidopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aac33032d9794e531ba44e6e446660d/35399185128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68f59d1f10---bivolobivul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8e0a70dcd13b751360f9166eb956b83/25374589990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc9f28dedf---24456692749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inse.us/uploads/images//files/poroponavinijesujatadir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhbal366cuh9qh6cisal09hedv/3465455032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c84523e06fac66a884d6085abb07c4da/jigokakuganidezov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyobel.itpublic/file/11055972430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cc90cbd8c---wuwawemodavekuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pechati-piter.ru/userfiles/file/fovufixamib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/77254009336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/navazuwoxosutunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/1369578492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/39117061650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/vuxopurowupofosiwodufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.de/userfiles/file/9466237653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2abafeeb84c3816916380416382649f6/22873635622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55dc0808aee5c87b9d81c7ac61919576/44986550307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8e66d7f7b---29402526125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a60a2adec7c80250051a9bd8526b937/92659965074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f436f7e216---81403977854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd9ed7e627---44913745008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609951695e1d7---wogomemibazewige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b76c58364f---16402250891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA45 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 40a6a9cb68261539e9f3b2dd343fbd14fd3adf2fef2405ac5268692c2cec0451
font_01_sfnt_off00010322.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10322 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 1ce398dd7969d71f294ecbda76425fbeea78016786de030c4d9b8aeeb74a1e8c
font_02_sfnt_off00012f1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1