Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02b994f8309bc77d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 10:20:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a4b669825d5b5904b52628056e5134ee SHA-1: 2f919aa3317e303e4e9d0260081c6b61f6b73d30 SHA-256: 02b994f8309bc77dc0322753de884ea7a053a8206b177380cd13353a82331c81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing or malware distribution site. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=annual+report+card+comments+for+students
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c3711e253---bimat.pdf
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56149c566a---zijaxolorefip.pdf
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/18276235470.pdf
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/sipuw.pdf
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tk1ob7aekfb20kv3dligpog74/dujifiwipi.pdf
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2b74138b2---10267800369.pdf
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b212d68e21---lerojejozoxupex.pdf
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/96302231852.pdf
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/sapulav.pdf
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5p9rbtpf4e96cmpn8d063au09t/98587333556.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e966e8a349b3dffad42366d37d2ac592/96204210472.pdf
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/resikelinoxawiromawedowij.pdf
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/jitupigikere.pdf
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/pozodowi.pdf
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b270912b2---vofawadowagig.pdf
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/65431250480.pdf
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9323d0d1ec---gubiwu.pdf
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/5989124318.pdf
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4772853603---tubugadixemo.pdf
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f29oan54charceapdkvl1te7pm/85020991102.pdf
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/323add92a5e8440e5023a1b9c47c726d/jofavibusi.pdf
    • https://rpitrade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joluvaruv.pdf
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3d98526d7d7548a8adc8df4a4b3d642/80909197102.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kaansvm0t8v6oc8ncf7d4a9b43/delefizeloro.pdf
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8e0fb0c3a---darefovaleguniverox.pdf
    • 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_off0000edde.bin
3136f7071bc840fb745613a446911952fdfa2a4bb0ebceb93a3ffde5eb934b95
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDE 16580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000118f9.bin
bfc721c458dcbb10c16ca74ed01e096c842ee602cad4e0ec572dd87fe5f71b06
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F9 10768 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000131d1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131D1 16792 bytes