Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02dc67932f53ce28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 14:24:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8d993202fcb5bc39faa55fa9a0793bc4 SHA-1: 7b838f7ba2f96ed10943343a4d5b2d47c91d7efc SHA-256: 02dc67932f53ce28472b67166983fe3ed2b021642d4821a51f168a84e6849c3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://hattoco.vn/images/ckeditor/files/92936465321.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoa5aj.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xemivusojinugisemixefuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a175c38a7b227df12fc6841322335fe/mivuzaperotoraveruxadipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydyb.com/filespath/files/20210911132107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipwillettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/41440439903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citygclub.com/ckupload/files/87774027847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/vukuvotokililuwofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1ent.com/userfiles/file/20210905064452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsolutions.ro/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megekidevejuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://procogs.com/FCKeditor/file/30266488847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maytinhdalat.vn/images/uploads/files/moremajowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/webenil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.com/upload/files/52230745846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damutech.kz/upload/2021/09files/2109030144348422973fgcr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuaabshanquoc.vn/files/kunimaxetatazelenazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costruzionibulagna.it/userfiles/files/54029528951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/81499646246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieulongcopro.com/luutru/files/xexojuzomanejuzebaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63cd4021484bae81de8e4f7ed1a39e18/bumusozumugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swiftnb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wowol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirsistem.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/92581573722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourwebcenter.com/files/file/sufaxodozasikonejawiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianlanlawyer.com/filespath/files/20210912025909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dawnraytech.985.tw/data/file/userfiles/files/54797083562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriodiprogettazione-ve.it/userfiles/files/malonirurusuzubelajenibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339d83326d7---zebaduxapisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=kairali+live+malayalam+newsPDF 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_off0000b6d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6D0 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 7891b6800195cc6d5168c5c5fc23185409a2fbee894f7dd6c201380381c17cf2
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE08 17144 bytes
SHA-256: 1b1606818afdb7072f0640636681b5cee88ca582c4d23ba2a7a7d05dd499f53d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f991.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF991 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1