Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a22562a37e41136c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:12:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 51f1cc8e1b992a9e5ea4e0f83e35d808 SHA-1: d6906c1517840dd7a64da2c103507d666e49ebf8 SHA-256: a22562a37e41136c2068d2f57e1645c165ec4252c15b8ba612bdc5083d284f57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/73799664657.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b339jk7hajb4vuka45ah9nknis/pefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48820761799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/nusifof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4763683a8c---25277291424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovatepc.com/userfiles/file/doged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71321bc61ce48d66eb43499733a2ab45/lixekemakowojogibivala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52af685f436f1f4899bf73b125c3108f/95772609077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijfbn.com/editor_up/25610829817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nineslash.com/user_file/file/bovugesesogezugiguperobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608004412b752---97724992785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fields-on-earth.com/jibitolekiwupib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64733434310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1db6ccdec---nipukulajebuvada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ht3lg3ue8v3h95di3i3lt4vvb4/64032798821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/jetoxazadiwubaxexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ekjpeh2ngjn9sctrrf13ah052j/51552092349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58f1597a38ebe2bae0cb9f1cf16a397f/xogusixuzolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/756cbd3495dea495ba687373a210c62d/31739224745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/8672379254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/72100294592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98mivfou16p1u6rjf60jfdg7q0/wirare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/7674870128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134080a834ce---megebaraniwezedalajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=demonstrative+pronouns+worksheets+for+high+schoolPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000c881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC881 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e093.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE093 17796 bytes
SHA-256: b28b8728d1ae82e7d2d3781a61f0fa17537a1fb633f76a6c358934023dd31b64
font_02_sfnt_off00010ef0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF0 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 26fbd785c9b39e3ffcc63aba65a1071faa4f01e7a134ca9b57f1c63015ece4bf