Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d22018d6f30a8c9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 22:06:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 40127604a94364c4f6431c5996070ef6 SHA-1: 1b0e43f00ea553d41daee0c23d75d458f011e419 SHA-256: d22018d6f30a8c9c38ad18452f4785271ac96c239ba3464bd963ec3588fe8f3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised websites and potentially disposable hosting. The presence of numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, strongly suggests an intent to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/lubijesarafevurejenukev.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://argekaucuk.com/nbg/upload/files/26013485302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlionshousing.ca/userfiles/file/7025873858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uslugi-ogrodnicze.pl/pliki/File/76417809025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342d1e95634---7607883050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrichmond.com/uploads/files/76014373481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f096ba106d---tafuguzipix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldcpc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xomolipukawupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a3adb0865a---96366204036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5mal4.de/moneyvidya/web/images/userfiles/file/85902704918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/tedawovoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/249b2033820fb85c1bd519d2186a0237/femufazowar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tranindo.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/rapakoxumabawisotikofojit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/45945107690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61428412302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilcafe.it/userfiles/file/bumelijodokaloto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mengnuanua.com/app/webroot/files/files/tegozirovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fpcofmacon.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/matoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargobull.cz/res/file/limuwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbstroy53.ru/img/files/61495233129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bishnutoursandtravels.in/userfiles/file/7682036690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hfnhsw.com/upload/files/sosavaliwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davobio.com/upload/files/65918181746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/nogemizolegosalosani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8io9rijg756vapugid8khitcpd/19427301848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floralojistik.com/userfiles/file/meminoramuxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=us+gov+house+of+representativesPDF 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_off00012968.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12968 17600 bytes
SHA-256: ae69a7c72d3fc26108a8ff6b1968e69fa4b152c75ca3a19277937c37428d27d2
font_01_sfnt_off00015773.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15773 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 3c9cf70dc106af80eefac3a7cb94673fda12d60b280db6bb2ab4bca44f1e0509
font_02_sfnt_off0001703a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1703A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1