Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02c38c7bc57b43e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-20 02:42:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c0bad2e7a79abd78969e5f82c08f0adf SHA-1: c80fa2dab57a3d5c78884cfbb2b4df184d897228 SHA-256: 02c38c7bc57b43e97f2ebbc55ae23fd14cd6365c4468f94e3b315967f74bb45e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, with numerous distinct hosts. The embedded URLs, such as http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc66726b832---rigisiwefanilewodevewix.pdf, likely serve as lures to phishing sites or malware downloaders.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985efea1f6c---pitozajemuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u6je77e0euqr0sf9neh6ob9vkc/14285532034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caf8408c69---96841177060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9addab5578---gonubonaxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc66726b832---rigisiwefanilewodevewix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazdooradda.com/userfiles/file/6842063576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/24358348050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/65776047423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df728cb860---narojifesunolusiwumudav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f70081653---gokuzogisoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/97374463030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a249dd7bfbf5c83864d6b30d9f45065/gajoragazeguso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5ac6b8d9e0cf03624f46c071d9b596c/kuremexavunebifapunevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0253b2066---zosulijepepelozisepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/libifimenutifuganepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021062114113025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c3af03b09388d2522240800bd594a8b/44980163151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spiregene.com/image/files/20210718_105916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-cosmik.ru/sadm_files/58838776982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ab4eb4b62bdb72d385598d376e5c274/janove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b98d5672737---92013503320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab94be70099---54460185066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=protease+and+proteinPDF 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_off0000e3ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC01 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 37c4289235ca710e17c38779b6d2ee251e555a4545d404d4c331ef960fee6b18
font_02_sfnt_off00011372.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11372 17736 bytes
SHA-256: dbc7a1052cc8fecb5381f4216fa8126873834ef7f2ff2d4c06f9130a0ab612f9