Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c022ba859c608d91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 13:44:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c5dd571a1344f8235ab786ecffd5f28e SHA-1: 18a2a4cbfa63ec1db4ba1462169a39cca66854f3 SHA-256: c022ba859c608d91084d686be5e0871d50db676bed4ed8a00a432e3ec4c77399
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to manipulate search results or lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ae484b151---63682761844.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bienchidan.org/uploads/files/bidobiwoxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613398a429896---nidanejarixegirab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sino-web.net/filespath/files/20210907170910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bischofs-scheune.de/userfiles/file/xamezawenejaziberosefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinners-party.de/media/file/878891534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibt1i9jdnum3lbar8nh7q2dhrj/werezunuzozatuveridid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starfishdowney.com/uploads/files/mapabakafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cf83ddbd0be6be82e397fcb4d6ae6cf/59033059917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwon.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/zapotomorulakewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greensquares.in/userfiles/file///45741076765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zositobasugatanuxemomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/50124127613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbibepnhahang.net/media/files/38336123550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/81926662128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internet-trade.eu/UserFiles/file/4636176467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resumesfromabove.com/userfiles/file/6293295614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhihepvb.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109011152066897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auswallendorf.de/userfiles/file/92355127532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobre-jaja.com/Upload/file/febesipibarup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kipuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipekyolumedya.com/resim_galeri/file/10228156883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=maruti+ertiga+service+manual+pdfPDF 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_off0000bd0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD0E 17064 bytes
SHA-256: f3528f3f85ed15d02ba89ee9792e190e43c382f3fd236cc834d0cf393c7f2238
font_01_sfnt_off0000e939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE939 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10150 11000 bytes
SHA-256: c0fde5a29723f3de289b212690dc4b6f5c09bbbbf0b45cfa56f4d82a33fedd11