Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02b232a73412e66f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-15 23:26:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a8d2e9044bb9c47f449aeaa0db1d972b SHA-1: 5f3b476c4dd54f424e83a145c39f58557f22f4fd SHA-256: 02b232a73412e66f7bf9ed90e2dfb69992007451e8ab1b59b8f0750dc0d3a343
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded URLs and the heuristic findings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://kisikana.hr/UserFiles/files/89024088478.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20409624084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v402vti51ld9iha2f4eucb84lc/wijewubaxatomebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equipelec.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zutuxidugeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/94273530112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/benutopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/lepitadifadivobugasiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085750fd7644---75862931969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31e9814ad0---542925910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/718543f61773c074505273947bfef139/53351619192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/96769090326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ad2db9398---tifalukip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/65975717081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flynewsletter.com/uploads/file/53488286799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608833e3157bf---99912030704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellnesszeewolde.nl/site/data/ws/files/fepaniwiguxinekukagipir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1354d0263326823572b2b5cb31911acb/78529414181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe5f6adc3c---77758830936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compufoxmail.com/userfiles/file/23658550174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772cf43a469---safoperijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2eae3df4b7339911bfc1f630892e944/26012921830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ikusv1afpk960kh9b3tfqjfoh8/47992219601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/katerinugegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/goseledekisela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/vuwuxibozanofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=gb+instruments+gmt+18a+user+manualPDF 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_off0000f405.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF405 18484 bytes
SHA-256: 76d76511011a0b3adc1eca980dea3086568007704da1ab47478c21605a793004
font_01_sfnt_off000124c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013cdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CDF 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 15d505b247dd0c521cfddff568c1b34dc2e6c2302b3549125ca676210636e538