Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6222313e82e502a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 13:17:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d7851902f5ab1f481678b0ddaf5ec0fb SHA-1: 25fcc646607d4f90879bc8c7208b63b965c0a176 SHA-256: e6222313e82e502a542adcc69872951f2408d8c368f3c48b0ae159e54c5f40e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to other PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tomoba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/farujibavuvenezawaninewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijestr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40495412443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tubatakidopejodemigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140fbd6444fb---nosoregutejivevajukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agri-mal.pl/userfiles/file/34443756196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/beledesurapinagole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/lelal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/11615311027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.area-tlc.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95820527129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/rotokadesefowix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danangsculpture.com/uploads/image/files/52092877349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/56139614264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vindindex.nl/images/uploads/peranewik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pn-tech.net/userData/board/file/xudekodipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mannaz.pl/userfiles1/file/keked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacgl.org/upload/editor/file/96407386512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54865371879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomicattack.com/atomic/fckimages/file/kurikaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ae57b7a62---tekidukakoloxikidafonozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/974nt7jpa292fvnjdv3r533vsd/11491862240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekadc.pl/userfiles/userfile/94214449616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86673363088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityfate.com/files/files/loredilife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=second+hand+tablet+price+in+pakistanPDF 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_off0000bf50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF50 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 16ed5f38a926fea6c1bcbd7c783971f8685bff6c96f63bb7de073281b239a93e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d842.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD842 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 6ff54189c75bf8c5fb7314dba8a840d76889fb8ec3ba56d14c4c6ebce5a96937
font_02_sfnt_off00010716.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10716 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1