Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c225be0b122ff7e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:03:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9cd40fb46dc95aaa4b6854b7e7273297 SHA-1: f0e9f60651ed6226a90128abf9748be5cb63515f SHA-256: c225be0b122ff7e6d4cae139cf363bfed4c027b9f73a62156622f840852e65f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, despite some being marked benign, contribute to the overall pattern of directing users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

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://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/ruxupu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kingsbrite.com/kingsbrite.com/userfiles/file/wanalilomeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revistaspontan.ro/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/95232785929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/84293067095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakantie-noordlimburg.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76151623527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikhospital.com/ck_uploads/uploads/files/80625485450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechsystemsonline.com/ital/www/img/file/63913968199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49660228333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/13721304959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventclub.pl/userfiles/file/pajilabepixuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzafjc.com/uploadfile/files/muzovegazuxoguzaxozisaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vloc37638431dpuju7h7m30pk7/segapata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/85546965284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/95464510160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/232465d0841bf6c8b8d3b6dc714aec8d/xuvalirowenuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przyrodnik-kujawy.eu/userfiles/file/sozige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.de/userfiles/files/47202595436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613210deec1f8---mavomuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a313d73503---gamapisizilotuwoluwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/files/sidukiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionemusicaviva.it/uploads/file/82003007703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/wadilixetebusutidoseloji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161349ae5358dd---72874646385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unitec-egypt.net/userfiles/file/wagijeranan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksx.top/images/userfiles/file/47023590692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/wupasifulitulalamawufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=tony+hawk+pro+skater+2+ps1+isoPDF 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_off0000bf44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF44 15828 bytes
SHA-256: ab6a2187e113507a16bd79e2b47fcec46fbf0ac6ec3960605ff4ab55ae7d4d50
font_01_sfnt_off0000e80e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE80E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010025.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10025 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 8931a015ee521e7136105e6a93f56bd883ce1fa7702a0732e6c337bb325ce049