Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c22c45938c5c2710…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:34:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0b8c3c0659b1645d6060b5007643062d SHA-1: 70375f64ace9d794c019e4dc2dba290e1e01c111 SHA-256: c22c45938c5c2710f4d0d14f34d8a651a4237f2828d50fbd0ccdf6cc8ff4f2a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16db3ec0f4e478ee0ca6fc87896559d3/86738967643.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://arnetbilgisayar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/49428303831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/dupodutapobukasozodagag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/nufomum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmacieitaliane.com/documenti/file/51282831202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/75173103135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a5daf56c3ad317f4c98f15e5797f612/11082087889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750ff6a918b---6917605937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835300317ad---94079086905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/80271956768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphambambi.com/webroot/img/files/kasifuwubudanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur4.com/contents/files/21724093678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/nobewapalirepizevivaxixek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5185ab1117c8dd2d032a7021ca7f2d3c/gavasemozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05921b49b2---madukijuvunusujidewezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terlickodds.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/36992912811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8inuc0lp2ukfdevuonfufvht32/mojijatepag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c10987a28df523b05b76d54bba71bd1/47830964412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betonkeritesek.eu/Content/files/roguxamewuvipemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrcookie.tw/upload/editor/file/261214335919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=transistor+amplifier+tutorial+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_off0000d473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD473 17276 bytes
SHA-256: 69598af9f246d3e9be3a690f92a8fbb41b64699f17fba9eadfb035f18df49a9a
font_01_sfnt_off00010125.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10125 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 9fb17e4b1b1e40edc31d1424b944a25a842372bec5b5defd83b8d50e4a90444e
font_02_sfnt_off000119ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1