Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02c2e4284902be9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-06-19 07:18:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e8718f2fa58ab41fc5bc3093f986e217 SHA-1: a8792c9590a85c013ee6b51ba609a6fd0136c2a4 SHA-256: 02c2e4284902be9d07b8c67e93070c41a23e63c2c8a1c30399f44fde4a1d546e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly supports its malicious nature. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=positive+adjectives+about+people PDF link annotation
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b5de24f9e---biwuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0503e5a868---9674148023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lebanubofederaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81c8fb7ad59e7de2373037020fd3efcd/51795723501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/dabuxuwazolufezumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a08eb972b---rebigagabonamutopebixejoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28dae2188f681c2f9cc14fd4715f7be0/zarafamubipejamamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f3b28f10151921ebccdb2397edf5b9b/32031877077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835f3eb4de8---kakobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c23ecac06b5---zukeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c4ebeb9c5---jexaligiteroni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daimarconstrucciones.com/images/admin/file/48296108283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/ranipogevuwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096712952d36---paliwemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c22b06aa4e604bd09d05858c7c9742ad/fowamarogeruputeturazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB35 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 7c3932bff2402d762c12d431e8d2311b9e639e421901e34c0e87167c9f636723
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD2D 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 9744d5e16c2d0558404b008d637f2ba8e6464fbab700069226c3bb999a6aeeee