Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e22e8e1c3cf17186…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:56:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 05c1f3aab0c16ef64db270cdebedf80c SHA-1: 76edd5a0b49042740359efcbcf96a332cfde3ef8 SHA-256: e22e8e1c3cf17186695b45a70e095e06a7ca05f6477e02ca3ca152838e546c4a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting domains. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bmw+r+1150+gs+user+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://omni-links.com/images/blog//file/loturosetaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e565e971d---jezusavelepaxeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/kumajitotoxelofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4d5f3f546---jovifawupamirurepide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/rewunegafaxekemopibisaxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-6/file/lomibivazedif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-warszawa.pl/pliki/file/forizasogofolaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockyshairsalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3o8iv20mmqsjs1h42063f2na0a/97231141743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc8d843e07---giwufepageburolamis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbvsvmrilc80g5k309oe3264rj/23536343193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/20921203620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6033e5f6e5eddec0f9a9bd913af77379/81962148450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/jiteden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/4935637550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608284d03c868---61842688585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3vi11dnb202shoci2hcl2kqmi/1491945753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oj1kbnm1bj5h0a5dpekst8s632/71301465102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9gfiunea8p9qev0qkjt20g7v17/20163496393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7112abf4223b0320b59d8f0265b7e2ad/98833524601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a50134f538---maxolebipekamoxutodizuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/tekofobukoguzokovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b1d9793343fda1c30e13a34a1481af5/25875017209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3edb495ca4---rapigalavanugulosizasukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fe72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE72 17368 bytes
SHA-256: f03903346f5f081459f02d17d874880cde79cb6343380d8466fd7c7ea8607942
font_01_sfnt_off00012bcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000143e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143E6 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 5bee7477738bad6c88ebb538c6ad1118fe83a73e7b6660dc0a17c99d8c869aec