Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a22f9193afc0cd00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:46:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 219b5b830f2023b148a947a697cfd3b3 SHA-1: af9ce52220fba59d0b47ce51e0a881b325148840 SHA-256: a22f9193afc0cd0049cdb5ad8eb2c95d58607494cdc07e5934a79d9bee0847e6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be disposable. The presence of a 'download' button heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL findings indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/zupiri.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5770f241c---47755384065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm-co.ru/foto/ck/files/88130288258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jp4noq2g2rmaov0mtaq0gl4bhk/gupodimeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/xukafeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanphongphampmc.com/upload/files/24453294052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viviapalermo.com/userfiles/files/59335329915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/feravarak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://all-new-wow.com/upload/files/85034794200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quranday.org/userfiles/file/pusulixiwegatixorawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/702525329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/18860374634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0440eaab5e---mesivuzemujusizitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/23088803183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/1020255333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/xeduvoruvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/laledomememijogafuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7cd0a4d37---69230821478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c3b5f2bb25026fac4f2f614f93769f1/devezowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e93e3a46049---56648533582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ash-graphy.com/userfiles/file/liputotutafexetuditep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb05ceebb3---wikez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/16228917658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmaicharmingtravel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97585717049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/553f286887cf21aa02585e6845674eb3/teliwinuvoluragibibumit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cba4cd92ee80361f1ccfa000b8442a4/990380682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+reading+passages+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_off0000dcd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD6 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 1f955fdc07e15c692a88eb0bd1047045ae3ab4d1ec3d5a159c7bdf0d61518324
font_01_sfnt_off00010954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10954 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001216b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1216B 10708 bytes
SHA-256: aaaf24ceb1ce13fdd268fea8b5ebe05c1769cf399d4ff998b90a715496370160