Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a22ac52341019ed2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:53:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 3817c38a52d4d12caea20cb55fea755b SHA-1: d12b1535d6a69fe50e4a61545fe619d1b4f25bb9 SHA-256: a22ac52341019ed23a968911d27b87e4902db7fb3eeb9f373b8b40d89d6904d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the true destination of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116a9b0031fa---juvitusasukepe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://arcos-eff.it/userfiles/files/nafazuwemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auditorescr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12697600223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/81055151316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/93331672293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0a68d958ca---gonawomasetivabivevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/50966532895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d536b37d4e2---98967579537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sial.pl/galeria/file/85171953182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612202cf341e6---638752176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/durireturebateg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.workbythai.com/admin/assets/images/34693168111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tifenixuzijuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/39707146116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/wakegofoduzumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedesco.pl/userfiles/file/pezusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1d14d64d6---vevulowato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/94877220059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariogiardinelli.it/userfiles/files/16173733441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac869a6148---davarelegivebafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210831_020447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/libimurexeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c8a129c857cf049c07041bea436ff76/lenopedixozopuxisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/44150459837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=linear+algebra+and+its+applications+lay+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000c86b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC86B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e07d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE07D 17684 bytes
SHA-256: 212d442511c14f7027bb8d4f6aba56f540e43bdf22c8cf65eec7ff2189fb254b
font_02_sfnt_off00010e78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E78 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 34c9a6ed8762076d7413381938ff150070a91c21a7e348887868547951ae4fde