Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a22fa34a4043b761…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-27 11:23:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7635ee2ecd157ceef5dc29565e777abe SHA-1: fc85199cb4dff1c19245fcfb5a91737bcc02b9a5 SHA-256: a22fa34a4043b761a128ac4439d2093ddafe549751f3e43c22ef8bb05f048481
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, likely to phishing sites or to download further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=text+not+working+android PDF link annotation
    • http://inoxbienhoa.com/upload/files/14089770955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmountvernon.com/uploads/files/4703559176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kinohorror.com/upload/file/60432720318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30d394a350b49545a4cc0e885a295cda/pilitigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/tarozibinosofugatawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmrcstvm.com/userfiles/file/7072680916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/43125357976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoaiduc.com/uploads/files/35915774035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/tixebavesojajutotaxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161428cae4d90c---94563975351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mansiya.com/uploadfile/files/mepinowuwojudidamupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b849418c9f260e1d5038369ae1c40d09/26135956007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143fef35ee47---45451199529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.koeru.eu/failid/file/zutonuxogufuwamux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budget-pl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nigisijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetsanprospero.eu/userfiles/files/bilemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowagon.it/userfiles/files/torojudijezarifev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/38346482193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aba8b65573e4314f921f78982d8bf0da/rifuxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nawupirewezipizewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb81d422b90444f6c0b801a3c1a82475/povori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/75115772214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lineshare.net/upload/files/20210905220827.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_off0000b0b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0B7 16096 bytes
SHA-256: ea099af8a7550fddd352421e247a27bfd717f99eef59e9c7a44c5c47372bd98a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9C4 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 4f7f7a64f8b6e95fd3c75adcabf6901c079e6570ddb4b2cc3f7d1c07684dc142
font_02_sfnt_off0000f183.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF183 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1