Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db22d9fc7b678e72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:22:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: bd591c8314107bbb776c05f99883eae6 SHA-1: 879adcf4903c7be61b4edb894be4d33dc9737981 SHA-256: db22d9fc7b678e72ce6c88e7ab481356d41b82b4e5bd3fcaf0fd76d2486ecae5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm on disposable hosting, and ClamAV detected it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hu7tv5vmsjp70prqhchsu15f7a/kasofosisitugeru.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102f49cd3d90---guxojulomavotodude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistralizmiryonetim.com/uploads/file/kegavafumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876c12c08e6---wopavexasetujajezezot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/pefowunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winpoasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17255627509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b70573d920f---14868671440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc-driver.ru/userfiles/files/90766664930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851ad5872c1---kixafota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranhdaquyhn.com/uploads/news_file/bizokopovel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d4f7200ae---13180877270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ea33e594f---91377062769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gokatenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/74069788900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac133c8770c---menewowanilit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e92f100335c---betalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f083d1e26a3e42d315622ebaecd37a0/pitilotopoguzonipapiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66223341647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/moniropi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fc6880b160f0f2eaf15ea260cbac876/28461069142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/52383120045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassagemodel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jukupadimobix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b737bb7c87---zoxebagukafuwuvowiwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+read+out+loud+iphonePDF 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_off0000c287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC287 16948 bytes
SHA-256: e21b2a8fbd47834d4c57d348b73464758b547756d2fd2a1cbe65e77dc1f6a5de
font_01_sfnt_off0000ede5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000105fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105FC 10528 bytes
SHA-256: c41b22b5a28b2d5f4632d2e083ae12d746678c7fcc566721ed41875802718b03