Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b22e83e226515f21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-26 00:58:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c910d493069b22c0ba07632847264f58 SHA-1: 566b9b483aba968e164e279d2eb5bb029336fcfc SHA-256: b22e83e226515f21c5c8d3b112101114c2ce30c236fc799b5fb3454f1a25a4be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to lure users into downloading further malware or visiting phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607778dc566c2---gizupugoroxiro.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/53786088385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430122053850475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa6ee369d5a---batisolame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be828ef7d642d61f114249d4b5b26306/rezason.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/ridopawarukowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff42d17e79---nakefevunupujiwozoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc66f68b2312d113231d414e793754a3/29240473791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608deccef366f---gejarituxuvunuzutute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/dozevijuwimudobojonusozak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a616bb7d9df---zexonudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/vomosenigen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbwmd.com/uploads/Files/7815851374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce1166d352---govapopojilokibetodej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/896ff0108ff3bf903af25aea6cd77c39/delezikafivovezaduju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/sonugemawugevijulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbc58e2f8e---mukapavusimubudibog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/4924825234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb516cec23---2298796121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/12407221542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalcenterhotels.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/tovedulegifizizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia6465.com/clients/f/fc/fcac8d81e62e7f23ed02b02243def538/File/piridixibikifuxabawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/23510416485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/moxuxemozilitinitevima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/66811149544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba89280dae---84390113484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=prodigal+son+coloring+page+freePDF 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_off0000ef5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5F 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 7d2fab3ba0d86b946e827b7f7f55a598e6e85fb62d44235de425eba2efec567a
font_01_sfnt_off000107c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C5 17644 bytes
SHA-256: 5d038b6837957fe4a86a2fc99157ca07fcb6a9c1ac1cd7ae5a4062f475e6bd45
font_02_sfnt_off00013639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13639 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1