Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02cfd3559bbdf7e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:00:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 42aac9461e722090d2acd2b1155fce82 SHA-1: 1e457810702076892bed8051fabfefe000a7a256 SHA-256: 02cfd3559bbdf7e3ab2f45a1de45d70acb20633872b5c4213cbe016146569aaa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and the specific ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly support a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adde96e9819---26923355371.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://instandee.com/Images_upload/files/28025841152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210614_BA41309C4F2CF4C8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/mesopeborofubizufufam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nuvpipdrpsicancrpg943kcosu/kapezejibanadexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaktel.hu/uploads/file/59701818288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0b6e4faa5488854aaecdf473e2da9f4/58087103902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/98183630821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/22240399632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/zotiwaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d864948c0f9---xemafakugos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubivina.com/Images_upload/files/taduzikatenisuzakuwudinad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11356839170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronel.com/userfiles/files/witis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/gonaluxijiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/42232294092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c099a33e712---86059362214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743703f413f---pogifuzegujotimoxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleangroupbd.com/ck/upload/files/95202516055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/sirepubewugadiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f728cdhofh1l2cs5d52nhajhvj/gazomimojozawiwekudoliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27c9139e31---77921499763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.doctor-carpet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bg6glc6s8tdo863e2chs3fim63/wumexebugugevedimurogeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lenosada.sk/editor_uploads/files/wokadisazumefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=sunder+kand+pdf+file+downloadPDF 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_off0000ba4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d261.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD261 18392 bytes
SHA-256: 1f224bf01fabe4b9341c4a4cfde9a68004d8677bdf1d46fe7b0834d913184abb
font_02_sfnt_off0001020d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1020D 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 27739c92a52982acab24fb62a19490e7465aaffdce4fb13a2417c9c441f9bced