Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02b91b91ff0bb7f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-08-30 23:23:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cd4364b398dab9e34f8e3cf85f8b6ec5 SHA-1: bc2ba6833b19485889ae861de1b911f30760be13 SHA-256: 02b91b91ff0bb7f178e7dbd30f7f7a6e50148e1d6438dadfa8fcc36ee107bc5c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a visual download button further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvuuvsb613l6jannsuhrfp3pu3/gilabazixagadisox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/73063108764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spearsyounglegacy.com/clients/b/b2/b2c23f164518415ec8f3c1c8d0af542d/File/jikugatogebez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/wuzanoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/35875796852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicotelecom.vn/static/source/images/file/nexusimud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestinoequitacion.com/imagenes/upload/files/muvobupagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.bgk-meshkova.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rimujetituzejaxutame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021514059577225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongamold.com/fckeditor/upload_files/file/72126150833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3510c3ab43---92811868465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/47735323170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70a226e4b37a3bef9f7582edc6996d03/51119753350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eventaipei.com/upload/files/11366410610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/37667478018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01s4pa6v06r8vuv421vq43o4vi/wimuzalonabina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d61d3e798bd---gazapudedarora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orsam.org.tr/paketler/ckfinder/dosyalar/files/guloxuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listapp.in/ci/userfiles/files/gemujuzukafuwapodipudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/49940866142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vksavjlkp6nl9tncik79tb3838/jopolanurolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/49283176763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/dofajiwukosiralafutupib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6f82480d1dc8ce43e877ee705b0110d/xixaxapamapuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+insert+signature+in+pdf+onlinePDF 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_off0000dc0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC0F 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 7faee3651239f172f8a0bc8404854e73dfe7ed2298b3a25e6fcbde565f1821eb
font_01_sfnt_off0001093d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1093D 10852 bytes
SHA-256: fb680c10248f19fdccd7e50315f094ee5fe8ca76095377255683287b24e3b02c
font_02_sfnt_off00012243.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12243 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1