Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02724a53b7d802e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-07-31 15:02:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9112d2075fe71d6963c287588d435063 SHA-1: bc362943e64b8cc4a607b84737d0e1b9d030dcff SHA-256: 02724a53b7d802e2f15625f3d839cccea6696f1b0b3754333e70777f4f3fe693
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 CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL heuristics and AV/ML detections.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=barbie+cizgi+film+indir PDF link annotation
    • https://avonsteel.com/UserFiles/file/fubonilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/82720032137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70449977324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6qmqg56t0qmsevou8lksr0m914/mogujodopivazejineti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsinteriordesigner.com/userfiles/files/xesexurot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ede9509d0---46186119860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///29472051078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/12209249685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/lebezojoratezexarulamir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ead7f33b03---gorepafekek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f357896ff148c4edf22c04aa2a52c82/82637786713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/153ddbd7337904bcf5752a1007483385/75315713166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202107032231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/subaxevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/relawuvosugole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c86f3f25c---xujutukazedogubela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/wexinorelileketemov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea11d6dea68bab8e89b19d4b7c9b2bc1/94830376423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5ebb613dcee8ff35c0989830ebadb80/25943861866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/24782062375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettorebelfioreliutaio.it/userfiles/files/31340834072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thephinhmienbac.com/upload/files/kumoramabobub.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_off0000ce9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE9D 17608 bytes
SHA-256: e9945b36217085bf91fd54e08a2e9e7c8ceec3df23ab7cabd655d1a389892de1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f982.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF982 10688 bytes
SHA-256: b8aacb0bb8f7e85f323b36da943b4d16aeadda5a80f60f14d0dd080f9ca77a5f
font_02_sfnt_off000111ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1