Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02ce10c542145f7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

177.3 KB Created: 2021-08-01 08:04:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5bb1a83330e25743d8088a7ab07ed642 SHA-1: 7bfda2eec10ae649264550541f81bc64a023dd93 SHA-256: 02ce10c542145f7f5af96e569cab9bfda2bf02558bb7a60b92e0d0a8965821bb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The document's structure and embedded links suggest it's part of a phishing campaign, potentially delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4f3702e14e2cc87516e48afbce16428/57391808134.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de9a93b71ce9eb2413e9939f0fe405ec/899996094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40266cd8b3173ecb432096e9cf788fc5/24434833392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a8e696c1c---tibadetutivupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biogenetec.tw/image/files/20210708_045431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f40cd1595f77815887d9a0d7ae95bd6e/54130426743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/pidaroworavotorizuwive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba62b19c4f4---44494453413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rurisnet.org/images/file/52964865588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17084aec44---rosiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64bc89977232025b2459769a27cd922f/57994330673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14962979163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/tawuwegofopotavesiwopam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viajesalaos.com/webroot/img/files/37300947024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----1-6cdapb2bdyqawnpcindqfc.xn--p1ai/media/file/darurenigojewuziwizojusob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c45ea55794b---tarebekene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/49252033946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/47757240839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2213f5dd60711c6152e440e51d9ce105/besubetesad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdef0a54352---48951775737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eslms.com/userfiles/file/36762435810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/xanebepam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demirlermetal.com/resimler/files/37672482900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somersetcountybar.org/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/86334612970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=normal+saline+davis+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_off00025504.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25504 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00026d16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26D16 18416 bytes
SHA-256: bf7bc702b96ff97118edf75169189706db8d061d22324561514f6f169fae53cb
font_02_sfnt_off00029e41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x29E41 10604 bytes
SHA-256: aeb043c92053d76937f77e9af8ed2c3b58dbe5893a85ff68cf1f421c964b7985