Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02ada0a2e34a1cd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-07-24 10:47:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1a073a03b1b29457f663ffbd68614803 SHA-1: e314c5dcc383fdddfc878a2d2b77f7a67c2a895a SHA-256: 02ada0a2e34a1cd0552525453ad0f440f5420d80773ce2ae6dc270210ef407da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, and the PDF structure itself is indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://jar-ted.pl/file/50630911920.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/38213256280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0b5383b60---pavufibikegunuvifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d08962d3b58423da3802c042ba509bbb/depijezivikomijoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2ec43bbf4---logejemagubifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098392244651---fitoxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/25077455865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capthepcongtrinh.com/uploads/news/files/nibaviravarifal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5317478577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/xerumoluxipukutajov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/54621058821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d97388b0b8b---gisipokomiwiguwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/kadepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbb79c49607---niluxinenivumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///bafusogeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonkingchina.com/d/files/tafamufamozuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/49207455592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5de11d96c0---73031693194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad53798018---59699261088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9b15ed18d---75580585463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b40l7p5s2v845kir2930iudte5/26114531325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b41cbf99093---75997218916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=millwright+apprenticeship+interview+questions+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_off000101ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A05 11292 bytes
SHA-256: 06020ff9cab05222e95be6b4319836838a2bd9e01b87e72faa21e88fd4ca1979
font_02_sfnt_off00013403.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13403 16476 bytes
SHA-256: db14da1dd3178f967462ca5b94228bca297609e06cc59e3320b3bc218c59ed8c