Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c226ea4b7966d0f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:13:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a11a8318cc805a0f3c4bc01d71d7b00c SHA-1: c4cbd1e1b37f939632b1de24e4e245ae062222ad SHA-256: c226ea4b7966d0f92764769375bc08ee2925f9ff575e992bc11504886e95c872
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://bendhorseride.com/userfiles/file/resenagobakirak.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f5caaeb7011127d2bc25f1d9c2b07a8/mamusigasom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/quuqt0khsiks2fn1rlsq6rkvv0/46382650858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/52023678312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfc100c13c4---lefuwoxaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/30391886624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080584c0ea1a---16364918321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dfe55dd07c---68088698513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyfinz.com/userfiles/files/roketoxeberanokozurunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrocom-spb.ru/userfiles/files/wokoxabopuwamunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5d60el4h86gp3dcekkgo85jsn/51784287196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a471f11a0---koxogaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.net/upload/files/xuzusogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/romabutilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngnjl.com/userfiles/files/45702663499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekreativecompany.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/89587604811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de926b3d003eb795c60ec2614dbb6ac4/11172271127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjc-dev.com/userfiles/file/petuliwiwizosezijaxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://australiancaravancentre.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/salapubaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-video.ch/userfiles/files/mufadebap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809573e0c6f---nifevadavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083375c9bbfe---ginavojafipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citysuji.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10022016519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/vujepadosemijuporuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=hdfc+ergo+general+insurance+claim+form+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_off00011724.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11724 18472 bytes
SHA-256: bc6acd34fc41cf0014eb278cd6079362081b302d468bfbaf2362015093d4f986
font_01_sfnt_off000146de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015ef5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EF5 10956 bytes
SHA-256: a28b89a0a829a5db49ea896cfdfde66622b315ec8f616d86bebe0ecdb6f5bc78