Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02081cbeb727769c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-10 03:20:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 6e2503c68ecd5d67afc46eab70789281 SHA-1: 74e7f0f8befb7c946b181339107a48d323e6f29d SHA-256: 02081cbeb727769c20cf96c4aebc0c8d599ad5c0f45ed2a940e8610dd9888c1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stupid+is+forever+free+ebook+download PDF link annotation
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/539002c468489efb148027445fad9871/wuvafepex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodegaadrover.com/userfiles/imagenes/sesurevofulizaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/movomowaxezagugusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nathulaldasptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43799604468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecofincas.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99891916808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis-samara.ru/img/file/15029041738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elperrocallejero.info/ckfinder/files/pobisinexig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozhelalikram.de/resimler/files/66663089612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibinetweek.ru/userfiles/file/pumanofomefoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-mega.ua/images/uploads/file/78925135168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9b51cb115a19765965035c6356e61dc/97541367110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a937387006---rigowizotosokonuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abouelhoulgroup.com/userfiles/files/pakelamupasirivivino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaskunstcentrum.nl/images/file/22964812449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzqzg.com/d/files/kutidoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willes-gb.com/uploads/files/202109071238223063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a84a22d019---jalijuxalupejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionasset.net/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210910075051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soskuwait.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/87234149016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eae3f85d5f---jidisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gulbaharsigorta.com/contentData/file/fulibalotomavijakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npcbalkan.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tubumigejavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/ci/userfiles/files/51064829162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnik.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/putowukumebupexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aow.infogestnet.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6894533806.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_off0000d306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD306 18860 bytes
SHA-256: 1a600402ee03a09be3f4395ce7ed49f4de6aa6f06b5ac3516882a1ef3846666d
font_01_sfnt_off0001044d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044D 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 96d02d3eec90efd4e0a6eeab20af92f7c78e3aca437df6d038d9022421246442
font_02_sfnt_off00011df9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1