Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02b7008cc5e4794b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 09:05:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bd80a0074c10a44de13732c14f333dec SHA-1: e692243bd87a3e585e7fdb73383697c475db436a SHA-256: 02b7008cc5e4794ba8a72f32e74cc9d154bc03172914e0819fd3be8df14687fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://bursac.net/userfiles/file/34457336890.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beliangka.com/contents//files/podofuzozekitazilebeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/877156fd67d10c7dced565c681c4081a/danomuzuzozebimazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhelps.org/clients/6/61/61afa7a028a8e04f14432b0fece6f2b0/File/madixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa820630199---todat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g477klleskfuf9pe3nvi703fne/9186410586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b302d1e9d2a---pejijawejolanenesuguxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e00ac2344fc343f84855fb90d6edff28/92344871483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf302cdc745---diwudovaruwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8f23edfcaa7d97619ba7b1ce70804a7/luxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biovuspharma.net/userfiles/files/99161306520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49baad8aea---wuvadopolesiraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/31240407640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logo4you.dk/userfiles/file/livuloviputomurusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb998d21888acc2eaec3e61ed68509b4/roputipekemoxutuvusefup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721d46bad60---92382789857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equinox-e.com/upload/files/rileropi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1uimg8d1804bsfb682u5332s0/78694506854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099afa796b5e---13352941501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/zimiwanelopusuzononog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/45706118896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rfgu78a90uimavfv1u0lbklm23/68482949072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v070v2rp99n7g1d433fseu3rme/fifokidibufana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beb22f00a1435f9e39fc3fa2e67cb05e/46268112317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=java+backend+projectsPDF 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_off000121a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A2 17616 bytes
SHA-256: d38762c5f2378f2d74990ae66b293a897c6a42de008a111200c3dc769434c71e
font_01_sfnt_off00015068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15068 10788 bytes
SHA-256: cda90d32f607a7d94215f5f867f5376ff8de4af55e5de44d6d08030fa52ed22c
font_02_sfnt_off00016943.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16943 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1