Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a22bd269c609b3b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 00:35:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ef144dab63268cb72df1bde0950551d0 SHA-1: 9cf8b6c3f5cb8bd181d769a6942ae37bf04ceecc SHA-256: a22bd269c609b3b536d26bd8b5044515093babac246c47e067404a9d6ea1aeab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URIs and link farms on disposable hosting indicates an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=andalusian+stallion+for+sale PDF link annotation
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8ff83f339---66221762978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/57716001100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24906e14983516e0539d11fb05842c82/41568879747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.com/php/uploads/file/tepewuwazutalikewib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61f70da045---nuxejuvometemawebapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/10416211054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/bosogivejofonogevidume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/jogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4090428c94d00bc1d9be0d4b880fe2c4/54607717862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d07cdc951b---61786717781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ppmc3k89mkou0f9s537qif2sv2/jeziluvurawozemibezumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a585b12859a028aa92decdae5828963/zavutitasajifekaluxomekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kv8vu3am2acqoeqd0jiuqq9qsr/48292622516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/sedisefiduzubawavunegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853ea5f1598---zozerixop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/75660736588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomistretta.com/userfiles/files/24274909018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8df4f965fa7a0d0e8a6fedb758e4eb90/gonefovikixikuwisopiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namuvaldymas.lt/userfiles/file/82362126096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/73133994793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bacd9677c03---kamatonozatudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bff17da959d---javoxujekabagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/wisona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e48b2d335---zisapereluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ho589ubhh7et8hc4ffms0kuq6t/72147023683.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_off0000ef45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF45 18320 bytes
SHA-256: 13cb875da4ec0759e56aa83afbd74c3ee24b5f13ca7c8b1b2b5f427a5f6b925c
font_01_sfnt_off00011f81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13798 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 54f74e86b3140c961f95ec1e22e39c66597942a7db41df3476c5e304af59710a