Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02ba79df47cb1ca6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 22:11:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 090a51bc148a0b9f6ae2a607ed9224d7 SHA-1: e34b42ccd0eb82f5c601b3d77e3557c4f2cf39f1 SHA-256: 02ba79df47cb1ca6201b0f1de5c34c8441e1d3016dd6d5b4fe42db7709f85f46
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data, limiting further analysis of specific user-facing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609042f7c779c---1102106913.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yamamatoen-wanwan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3792711793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210615021140347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa3fc6b865a7b9a9d456994155bfcbbf/37372844242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7k8c1fuurpru09tm3ih69gmm7/32834047134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879b760eaf0---xasusoziletog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debden.org/userfiles/file/zomaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3l8jbouacla5q9r7eo7ht5okuv/xefovub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d71b5667c6d9d7a415b3c9bd5865d2b/53342702491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80f54cd32f26c89188bab25b5e30be36/4827659278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33u8dekut2hjq157ene7nvfqi3/25541877887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/vazopawejejasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4860fae662c8d7de2e056b42f3fc1d5/19714589018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/faponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/80535621499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078287ca86f1---goxuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7149d3a9c841525e426b879a469d8928/pewila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///60474067903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skomi.ru/img/files/file/13959828837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c64d9edda7062b62c67e75884febff1/39815190892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a9d86ba24---61994961182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/967e718b49e69c5efa032eaa1c61e4c6/rijudotepobijupisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/tumevelirara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buildinggodskingdom.com/webcms/file/83465345734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrdiborice.cz/erucom1/files/files/wavut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=doctor+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000ebce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCE 16916 bytes
SHA-256: 1480dd0f5beb0138697634497313f5b35b6d9d981ecf8185c25d36f3bd927398
font_01_sfnt_off000117d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117D2 10652 bytes
SHA-256: f72497d5e873ba7a5dfa3e9a3119e07a2d093f002301ec5504207a7fcd01081e
font_02_sfnt_off0001302d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1302D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1