Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02cc148d865b8489…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 16:46:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: de000a42796f93aeb5a1bed578cc3275 SHA-1: 174ecbe062a9976ef01bded6768dd4a7edca407b SHA-256: 02cc148d865b84895ba8f542d0334c6cbd61591b269b6a0ab84def1fe404b3fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier also strongly suggests maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures or malware droppers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=preposition+for+week PDF link annotation
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df9b0ea5d5653a9434a6996b49d975f8/42499382032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc5f2d8f99---17184016436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f544492bf3---73097016218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/45670728032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehonourride.ca/clients/c/c2/c2a221447f3e921143a55eca482c8289/File/dusudogapisegen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c14927a9534693c5976d9424277d8ea2/bobomozuxovutefivupaxigaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d969763d11a8455842fdc10b96f2e88/59510766222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/83257445687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/48234775522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f15317adaa---patazisagoloxakuzunemusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1fjktj1ag60b9jqfdjps1m7a3/dosiroruzibuzak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/79457914602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/3478144048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bereanbaptistashton.com/clients/1/1c/1ca8668e480cca1e897b6add33210fc6/File/91714417514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884e914cbff---bogerilovawogig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skomi.ru/img/files/file/gutoniravunezig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/fuzavegijunovinitabana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609286257b010---zituriterovakijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/53112711350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160e2f79031faa---31530504119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b6a92fab91e079927e36f0c74037074/91593909365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/48436059362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/livezelop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097a269053a2---lebesixetalaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michelbarbot.com/upload/files/badatadiwugorukukalipefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af6e2bdd26c4ab5aa03bc30941044b6d/82199362257.pdfIn 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://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_off0000fbf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF7 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 246d92e02e86aeac8ea9db42d793367240b17149171b5db9be952d1dca12703c
font_01_sfnt_off00011372.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11372 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B84 17440 bytes
SHA-256: 9f8296c5bee5c6d870ba8b73d9e89ae4bde24cb21173e786ad38c17ea1d92d85