Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02497d41c22e2dc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.1 KB Created: 2021-07-17 20:53:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 33a9998098cb7d55804af6c6005ccd35 SHA-1: f1eb759b2bd0cbdb5f2d3cd20edb8f80810faf42 SHA-256: 02497d41c22e2dc2bf06147f3e78996c78e03e0b8cb62ac959c5a5e71a1ad77b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains that appear to be part of a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for SEO spam or phishing. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l67pn68tk01n5t0o1ld0jgsgdf/zigubireni.pdf
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/lidojujotilape.pdf
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/xafed.pdf
    • https://777mto.org/contents//files/ralokikusejez.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844002d3deb---jamak.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0a4a45b72---48032774607.pdf
    • http://cymrozgreatdanes.com/clients/1/1a/1a407d8ccac5525c71aaafb6b4664123/File/7545280976.pdf
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/54474846489.pdf
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/18006061059.pdf
    • http://kimhoatra.com/upload/fckimagesfile/64495792002.pdf
    • http://yuc-fac.com/uploadfiles/20210709223133.pdf
    • http://jandenzobv.com/image_uploads/file/welajodosowolowup.pdf
    • http://treeoflifetolfu.com/clients/0/07/07f122ebb3396bb3f917f2e62af81596/File/pafumupixunilafifa.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de122f3149---38742357202.pdf
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff9181aeaa---89318181301.pdf
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bf0094da2767568e150cb5d565f10ed/komuseki.pdf
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/89704104161.pdf
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607556dabe105---perawilalumetupozon.pdf
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/tosubegegejajowofo.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811126d1aa5---nefix.pdf
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f1ea85b03625a6df992d64cf8e7d980/17359665844.pdf
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/tufofezufuropalu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=off+the+wall+1979
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00015782.bin
40849edd8b7bdcd1a1735725c1415455f91e55c9064d16fd0ea1695f511c5a89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15782 10108 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00016e74.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E74 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00018686.bin
158fcba9d501d336b387b6b1286b277332b97ab35d805ac08fd52582cb01dc3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18686 18168 bytes