Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02cc450d7f31a998…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-06-13 23:17:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 2a8643daa2a40e9870c06e0a56470275 SHA-1: 9a1456366073fb9f07dfc0e0cf61d88a90515754 SHA-256: 02cc450d7f31a998c6f7409545084018c17cfe83a3c766e9db826df819941a5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cute+naked+photos', are likely used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cute+naked+photos PDF link annotation
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb4110f367---3895887948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f6c647f30---vokuzenutotalufijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/ledusikajemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/5051597889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba21e3aa0b5---65858952039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7botc14aivbeh7e16bnf01libs/59770318532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7667819b0---xavikufivasedevalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c594aa2b0---76992206982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/mopot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c21ed89a09---83256390502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30953b8661---xorifurebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609423d042e43---gesijupubejokawimabopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca265d02bb---zabutojodimakojeligabero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/pelovurixov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camionespanamericana.com/userfiles/file/20433070091.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_off0000f49c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF49C 4888 bytes
SHA-256: 2233732ab9904ad7d8789c70f34fda84234f343295685dcafed6bfeda1119f07
font_01_sfnt_off00010536.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10536 10752 bytes
SHA-256: fa1afb6282e93a6bf3490b9f71360212d12de1e97dcc7db0d598e5ac49e4496d