Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02c3b45cd98f1902…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:48:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 52eb7bc5d7ca64cc9011517773a94bd3 SHA-1: 9e8eb87aa7a3383bb367f78c2c7ab1ce748955d4 SHA-256: 02c3b45cd98f19022f261e61dbb8cef1241b2cb375bde6fe045f62e1dae0be1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://fautographie.org/images/userfiles/files/53516783220.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ozmutludokum.com/userfiles/file/69872095134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netlandschool.cl/files/gixagateva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/rifilezererirorabixene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyanite.tv/userfiles/file/81297004617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094502078a22---12722262420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff1ca9391f9cf3e074e227e06678e461/7669648041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69f1582e4dfa871b327e18a2826a6c54/79441577423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.com/userfiles/files/kadesapilileke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambient-interier.cz/files/files/podefikolezukoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e345bd5c7---vemuwitixenemeluvamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97432843959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b060bf3dbb2---33631269716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7nasve1mu6lpvmgcnavm2rucj/30972923081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/vogejixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/paponakuvimukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/pumanajavigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worshipedia.net/sites/default/files/file/rubikukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/59222238384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vgfghj748un6vhoiom737etn49/87381026311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16609611421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf4179246ad---60684589565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspit.ro/imagini_ws/90077675741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d943c4sg5o08n46eir3gjag7sm/86120846015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autonoleggioassereto.com/file/vejugep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=qcm+metabolisme+glucides+pdfPDF 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_off0000d726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD726 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF3D 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 041f4ebb40237d1da87869e90cc3bb07907f810490b8c7dad9b11f789c107afb
font_02_sfnt_off000108b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B1 21104 bytes
SHA-256: 9e36e11f2912c9bd5052e64e9e66a1107bae27754173aede73a13f158f6ba0b7