Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02ccbf5b1b86d54d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 06:33:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b5c078eb85d4326c6b0c495867587578 SHA-1: abdb67203ee233908bbe5bef8eea6dacd61e4f6b SHA-256: 02ccbf5b1b86d54d9cf730f03aa5313d2775eb72e26ff083758c43d5a1f5721a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URI links and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9870

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://www.xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/jiwanimumedewobemez.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/16769711903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/78954050107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sung1.com/upload/files/58733461929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgrima.com/files/file/83922716080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613822297d017---xidivitatosowuwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maydemtienvn.com/upload/files/55145258523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serting.eu/userfiles/files/bonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wurolujudonovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngaa.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75188446049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trisad.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53860173611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/31237273384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinadesigndanang.vn/uploads/image/files/wowefuwilubigoruvupaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/98935640809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atsamuihaus.com/image/upload/File/kepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manpowernepal.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pokatozibosifoxuworux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qigong.ru/userfiles/file/lajedopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aildf.in/userfiles/file/46021886502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28604c0f16f02aa3e94809b4998a9d58/nulideli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terracell.info/images/file/zefimiximumegebovotizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnobor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18486553948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/pusegurofozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0948053001630826316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portaldeaquidauana.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taxatewidep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpieesb1glrhssvtbee8t8etrd/rerowukukapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/kiveburerowubenatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ano+ang+chromePDF 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://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_off0000d686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD686 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE98 16792 bytes
SHA-256: e54d1f1349bad4f1032c1841a86f26a16e4b5392b03dd15a003c06bffb939039
font_02_sfnt_off00011a20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A20 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 8f9c83adc5583fb2feb828d8a43a0c0899dbcbc317a73d5775981e92af1570c3