Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e22f7b75e6f8f764…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 11:55:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: eeb21a15b37079e0951e2910393577af SHA-1: 24949a2b7472ae85bd67ef9439405c896fb002c5 SHA-256: e22f7b75e6f8f764d048e005459695adebb9fac7f3ae21cf3e44cf0f4cedf257
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a 'notice of termination form' in a URL parameter further indicates a phishing lure.

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 http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/15448931560.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-25/20210525083342956086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7903d7cad---92559867138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islandpointfl.com/userimages/rozasenusegedax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad04d749b89---75837302159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/wotezoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608407f07bef0---95519244036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6faa806ce306e8a3a4a9529b0ea1469/33069907049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://room12shio4.com/contents//files/zamolemovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fae2d6c7b620cb24f3188b1ac399e074/22642525925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/77158719560cebc344e21e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigandtallking.com/userfiles/file/99639370609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607167ec7b5ce---10961532431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae0q8lbqco54680i8lm5s97vic/josugufivudavubegas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79ea3b356b5b62750870c6abee4ba40a/2813539206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609486c732987---67789931590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078653a999d5---86247953148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddb61d7338c02bc96b71093770baf1bb/6475298243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k955ndrm5n22m6eqq16hivucb1/78046787263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3abaeaa995f959e4c949b825d9289686/zerifagisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7530i63qq64dsfoto2as9ufi31/xevinupositegejujuzeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a840f4af685---wawuxomemixiwomuluturukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607676776df2c---15617500513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/naxuwezudowezozelebodejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=notice+of+termination+formPDF 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_off0000d1d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1D6 16212 bytes
SHA-256: dade2c994274629b9f0d601e0a9ed0df3f99cdcee4c40b6053a6e940c913e5e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11396 10260 bytes
SHA-256: 0a07e28bcfe42d81088259cd3d2b240cf3c5be17090acfdb8fc9efb1d3c8bc3e