Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02afd531a222bb0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 11:09:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a0d92431a3c074372fc3cb463e2462d0 SHA-1: bad6b06cadcfc104983a89c23f8511859ea712c6 SHA-256: 02afd531a222bb0d43bc0bf1b2f83f0b21ae1a7bc56a2395a56d497f9760f442
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to host malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://csc-028.com/userfiles/file/20210911205710_virecs.pdf
    • https://www.lsv-wittlage.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizasuwoxefuluzezi.pdf
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/65672922140.pdf
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/ravofag.pdf
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/30436843934.pdf
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/85392981091.pdf
    • https://udruga-invalida.hr/files/27900930030.pdf
    • https://ispartaprefabrik.com/ckfinder/upload/files/86723748848.pdf
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3d065c064---16089140371.pdf
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3f03852c591c3475c0ab3f18bd6ffa7/72430933258.pdf
    • https://bibliotheque.ville.deux-montagnes.qc.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87353827998.pdf
    • http://vandofigueiredo.com/userfiles/file///11907558649.pdf
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a071768aa---pakenuzorubaxod.pdf
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/12505027817.pdf
    • http://websteravelandscaping.com/editorData/file/sesojobefozaxuvosevitovin.pdf
    • https://aspirecambodia-edu.org/userfiles/file/zemonozawirubevin.pdf
    • https://weldingportal.it/userfiles/file/29634037758.pdf
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/35144618909.pdf
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/waperisereniv.pdf
    • https://www.luthier-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69957305371.pdf
    • https://chungcungoaigiao.vnpec.xyz/uploads/files/54295300983.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+learned+words+from+keyboard
    • 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_off0000df2c.bin
8bd8f94c6fb4d00c40214929d51358bd5a0ca650eb42ef28755aff029e435769
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF2C 10912 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f885.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF885 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011097.bin
707f48f69c5396b5bb86430e894850ccfce4e3a1c75a2eac0355ba44934b6731
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11097 17960 bytes