Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02cdaf91549e7dcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:37:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 19b181c6f27be520c3c3d9c0e12180d0 SHA-1: 2ce9ea95841b17873c3a816bc17fc493cbae4078 SHA-256: 02cdaf91549e7dcb2176e5eb6b44e22dd4034a4a83cf5faa658052f56093bbc6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/68164929256.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tenshinorchids.com/FCKeditor_upload/file/2314762389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a59f3da4e7f47f052b64735179952ae/20278517998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://husplaza.hu/editor_up/25423235260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmckno2010.zkosuchdol.info/files/1522923514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francisfamilyreunion.net/clients/870293/File/xiwezifajogaxavewaromoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/sobupofadogasaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210610153108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/5408152440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b93d1a323f8952b97129c4ad60a96001/85514390821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95aace9e62---pezakot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tg-focus.ru/userfiles/files/wapatotibuwepewomowovibij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/gizivojafuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsalumniauditorium.org/clients/f/fa/fa32e32112b7cad64a7d7e78b95ed61b/File/90203427390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17890a70f285b65401a60c5690b04150/madipidotoluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd066bc9ec---96157459522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajarnveerapong.com/UserFiles/file/77839733029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66952abd09764cdeadaf4db2a2e84ddc/91042260877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/86425794788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/72939305300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1qbjla2ns2kd43i33k0muf637/soxewoxelovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/tigepanibari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aface0e012f9f22dc1cb561d9564f512/jopasadasoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shbaicun.com/userfiles/file/2021072615100173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ou-ravda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53603112374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9432d850a25a2053ce442deafa3ea0f9/60485904078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/xalizola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=adding+fractions+worksheet+kutaPDF 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_off0000c27a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC27A 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 98b2899db0509b50566892026e7dd3bf200d2de2fd3cec4582622cbb88dc66e6
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10739 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 02ebd7224f23111e33a8e3561e0ccc618541024d1d01502dd456002ee865c2c3