Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02346c24b723a52a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-07-24 20:52:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: f2271e70e3cb9d05c8ef2473750eeed1 SHA-1: 521570880826595dc4b095ca9e050948ff2354b4 SHA-256: 02346c24b723a52a812d980ee68abedb17d7d8df3c7c2539cabe8b67d336ccd0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The primary purpose appears to be to lure users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

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://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/ginujigejefatanafopaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ada1e1b33---lidirarekinowukabanuxapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849b70db83f---fuwosejimumafopum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607063d5595f1---moror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pierrevillers.fr/mairie_files/file/87194794660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidsslot.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gupiziboku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080917b535c0---20506408668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/33596279534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/22451855283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/89290498306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/32982235452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d36ca4f3f6---xixilaxikasege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b97393bcb4---91140348869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/lewofujamilituxise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celiapopememorial.com/clients/4/45/45605e685ba8a3b32f56966823665796/File/pasew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aifamilyreunion.com/clients/59202/File/61223997253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748c56e992f---12533349073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e601af384---3428911686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084feaec276f---41437264185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cab46a9aa53---32745266759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78667061f4---rirenixewugavetabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c872ddafd8---gebiguduxasaderemuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/jepebuzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8b5277751---65563468996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/taruveveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonacorsi.it/file/17833783302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=cgp+biology+a+level+revision+guide+pdfPDF 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_off0000c192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC192 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 855123b406861afc7e8393f1f073d53acbdab3a42b068bf5695312f887293727
font_01_sfnt_off0000daed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAED 16456 bytes
SHA-256: bfc499be4568dfaa993ba95945e957c626847e8e70cd50a80d9367090766dc04
font_02_sfnt_off0001057e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1057E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1