Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02c225f5958f1bc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-31 21:10:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 87d36c67457ace7e6a80412a51c6bf1a SHA-1: 589a70418fe2ce8adf68ef059675bdadec061154 SHA-256: 02c225f5958f1bc95fc5d142009837c4f3e651f861168ed988e2025e0fb64c6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://10playsolutions.com/clients/softklk/documents/_articles_/file/48338318888.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/89410292940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2c5f7926a9---jeduvuzeveragila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assytekservizi.com/userfiles/files/nugeriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbisan.com/userfiles/file/14556733429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab36bbaf725---12241358241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/gomoruvasobavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/59808621681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f33af38b36---93501341000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebirdcanada.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210617_922C18F02115E541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d82e42306---29210932689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/kikusuvorufubepunaxujov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c68457207---95896238204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hqdipfelfhja5jigcs7v1e1env/2964025490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d550d547dbc14a201c197f4535e6e8d7/55146751187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/54224463259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/boxulixoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wib24-admin.de/uploads/file/11549930659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa2ee7e757e892c3631b1239c717a1cf/vupatafudepamupilesowub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laarakkers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46860550065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dd521bf6c---71950247025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpkchhjtkf0k8ng21uiusc95r4/91519597557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjsolankifoundation.com/fck/imagesfile/84909460165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/htjktp6gfokcjo05t2phecnl6h/27923367472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xemasemomukusilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a87274c0d---1306460844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=achyutam+keshavam+krishna+damodaram+mp3+song+downloadPDF 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_off0000f536.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF536 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D48 17096 bytes
SHA-256: b69903450b923a278c36b3eb3a6bc3b6b3cc809125cde46d7f70da77036efa2e
font_02_sfnt_off00013a1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A1B 11572 bytes
SHA-256: ef05bb275ca7a7b8c3a174311ed7dc6e41353b9d3262cb27752aadf2387e542a