Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02326a90179c9a1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:55:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9a531368d6b5666153af41d8e34bab09 SHA-1: 4763797b753f7178a62006747ee30b5cb528edc1 SHA-256: 02326a90179c9a1e2511a8b59490f414bfe4edbda75b9d6c4dc8ca04a2244bd1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious files. The presence of the ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support its malicious nature. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not intended for human consumption but rather to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da6f27bb15---purimejepudebedazolumuxor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2cb2abcbba---vivumuwakifinasofexazukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/daziguwisimasewosujiwozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilbertthomasreunion.com/clients/5/5f/5f56fe696be94dde62972871c8a9bc28/File/najurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5237226ecfbe81387927a2bce2940bea/55864409294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774de09f5ad---44229120778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607983965af98---kapitesirebeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f86b558fac3740701fc2d28a3e5af1ad/tototomubuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5ce8c645aa96c6da7ef5c060a284e8b/45760281792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607122c498f28---xikifinadilajuvepep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/27472068197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/xepuwelugofufusevino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d909cc8f412---632327267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96d247c9340016313bfa9ebde005016e/mexujimitibuwaxurogeluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1b66976b4b---41063268572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/577dfb58a578c53afc931995208c4229/fijixovenigovigabifekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12fmorn00fo6gphm96boc0v8q1/latonitotukiwogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/86406069308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a39f7def7219a6f72aa0e0c5add24ee/31559041384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/69345882663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/jedafugexuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0924193909---11044873981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608acf62103fa---wanipekogijoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6nbhqjroa36q5d1o21fkhf0fc/83011302598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqbet09nm5efrolorfnfjmje6v/dixuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fly.no1-yes.com/userfiles/file/nunemizoxediluxeputiluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=warhammer+40k+inquisitor+martyr+reviewPDF 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_off0000f28d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010aa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AA4 11124 bytes
SHA-256: d73db86f529989bb64afc09e33fdc9188ca1e96fc556088bd2bd4edfb9ec9d54
font_02_sfnt_off00012492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12492 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 390e1fe86b04cea9caf5cfcc4176452edfabdc6970f8bd88890cc78d4120714f

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