Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02b6deaaa9ef059a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-10-07 00:59:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9901b0c5f2a2b11dda822f50d7d560d6 SHA-1: 2141225cea101fd0e85505d16cdbf8f1b10abba3 SHA-256: 02b6deaaa9ef059a5dabedba5630489527e0bb57e19b116664f12737d28ed6b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs and link farm structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://abwmercury.com/uploads/files/xetebufiliv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ikorti-iao.com/userfiles/files/gawominasugupavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96198934640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615a03d77fc0a---12413158799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1906c5e665d948eecb22d833a50f3304/tedizulopiduvasus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/2399390110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagominum.com/contents/files/mipekalabupetomowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/dokekesuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamm.be/_files/file/97327768490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilonew.tasksplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51186989496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ba8c27ecc05ac27a4068aab8fbb6456/85301539452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/devejemapefawoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog/file/61083160600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/mirobamudoxunule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ail5gglkiu88km7uo42vqbjtnr/80296120049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/junox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qian-ho.com/upfiles/editor/files/90592416255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanillasky-ch.com/images/files/92552785775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoscan.it/userfiles/files/sarola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1000families.eu/userfiles/file/97049348586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/wufikaworid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83397319121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klawiatury-foliowe.pl/_data/file/timabeteziroxijibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cooperspick.com/files/49531752440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/11556128453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+mystery+game+cheatsPDF 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://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_off0000d8c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C5 17860 bytes
SHA-256: 3e635cb54180265892480973860fc6f7f07fb2843f5203b1072bf7c590577a6f
font_01_sfnt_off00010593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10593 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011daa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DAA 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 71cd618770402ec064ae6071dce688c1ff28899dba5a0d4f57afbf9adb12a9a5