Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a22c615d0b11a4e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 23:31:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 604b4e39dac189ad23c17bb5295b0a0b SHA-1: e217b0d854b1d1a2613d1cd0ffd207f000d79a18 SHA-256: a22c615d0b11a4e836e4b20f3d6f1f6ab83b9aa41482ab204b2b9e2080f4e0bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210921011418.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://steelfurniturecn.com/d/files/muwasavoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/63833828860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uo3nti1adbibmsqmavtk9us0j1/74317726441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents/files/23613657843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/29878965865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpjse.news-read.com/upload/files/tozikedixariridirugedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reha.bg/content/upload/file/46715619448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db75e25aca---ziletixuwuzete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161431abd50d66---19027797649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamadona.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97303880662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/dikepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premo.at/userfiles/file/43054954987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaronandanthony.com/userfiles/files/27582708830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoletiziamasciotta.eu/userfiles/files/7097445569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livermore.com/wysiwygfiles/file/85726347582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/82433600855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agmatbaa.com/upload/files/pagoforubisitowedebexar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suvanazuwefirijutujosujul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/puvaxufakuxazidilekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hizlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/livatodimiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahmission.org/dataroom/file/jevitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=zareklamy+earn+moneyPDF 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_off00010a57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A57 10080 bytes
SHA-256: d6002a94be14d64dbabea66ff202174dc4bce1cec642c052da58263b3ee48375
font_01_sfnt_off000120d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000138e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138E2 18548 bytes
SHA-256: ae0d67e7b174796e7219edcad3da87e268fe33c4e81850e32c4687b6306ebcfb