Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e22f520b6c96a6ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-29 19:46:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: be554637bd9caed3f63899fe92dbcc2f SHA-1: e89140dbef5c3b832f9604a276957fefd820aa42 SHA-256: e22f520b6c96a6ef55dcbccfaa58c0f5b87ef82c5376bea1c839c8ec01db5601
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, indicating a malicious intent to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9886

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://dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64953524952.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094691907e1a---46103355976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/bezoburexilugoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f62e76aa79a71050aeeba88669b0b8a/825407532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6872489bf---81207732008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/ladebebivinakef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9f29adf0a---pixuxuzefaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3623745ae---baxeremopuxudomalus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00489aeb59---60466906566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekuangudomthara.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42623751836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vazenus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8ujcqg49kcu475b2g7rstlcvo/4060835262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/86681998103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.champagne-cornevin.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/defux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af5la2ep3s1qr08h0oa5m44ag0/64179516165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17caf4f7bb90df34ba4ef735529c3ff3/22635922084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bddac7f1275---dufadidusizonuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealhca.com/admin/images/file/180356507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/63745307459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshopgroup.com/userfiles/files/42452803973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----1-6cdapb2bdyqawnpcindqfc.xn--p1ai/media/file/25828219593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbidienmanhcuong.com/upload/files/tejodavivekozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b2a942a08---5888410156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095fc449d175---75652700786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160965ebd7c263---76690704333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevelec.com/bevelec/dossierMois/file/memesen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=reading+bar+graph+worksheets+4th+gradePDF 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_off0000f561.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF561 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D73 16864 bytes
SHA-256: 02cfda6e411f5e4e089d46a61751c7f504d6fb18719dfdeaa1fb1eb5ce8196b1
font_02_sfnt_off00013980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13980 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 7894e590c50084667092e44c11397756fd2d65fad9b16e72def701174e767173