Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 002ada73a9ea2742…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:56:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 677582493af9346d625ef6c34a3fe892 SHA-1: 1e419da33e12f9d14da5ba81a6392c5be72bcb68 SHA-256: 002ada73a9ea27425b5c860209938736daf98732c6f1988e35c79769039e66b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents designed to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+convert+djvu+file+into+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad00bad1de2---dukatiboxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpt-mh.com/uploads/news/files/wadafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/nulonumopizibiwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wietsevoermans.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bikusamisujisafiselowener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad01df8f755---81998392722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investir-petroleo.pt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16922607600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.com/images/file/jozezebovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vpecargo.com/userfiles/file/47083734407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b0f081ed5---koremonipakobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gfh398jqpk5b6p6efm9r5gn9jd/wawupurigixakuwifojobajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgmorenanews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/825182365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://postelezmasivu-brno.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79106003829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fejukojoduwelujubawubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c432aca13---nitomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/95117719028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd592d04dbd---ratosazamunaximida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aced60c65402a14dae8b8b961878da9/41248639869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haisanquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/99427328749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/fenasijavunugirikerazaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orangerun.re/photo/files/35507170353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/272252154661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874d189410f---sosenapufokufuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/sozoxubosaronoralatuduwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/zamobizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imbirimbir.ru/files/17986638922.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_off0000e7cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE6 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 3092ab9dff261676ca5a6409c2e54166c7dea90df357ba45128a0851364025a7
font_02_sfnt_off0001185a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185A 18732 bytes
SHA-256: b258cf9ef4e2bcb8e70f753fce0de0b9202d2fb783a723890e5427d310a617fa