Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02e2e367d75f6e27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB Created: 2021-07-21 07:14:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fe17c84e60b92797d9b31b3e06d61b43 SHA-1: 869b2a9f36c1b6de4e4f76fa8808307cb8c13b93 SHA-256: 02e2e367d75f6e274c8665a77f1dc401edc7e1dc8790e7d271b74f22c8ec6507
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, acting as a link farm to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1e00224e1---javifumijenu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a423e2d20aa---dedalubozuvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/7495760626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b92c157ad6b2d49ad4aa3c7dc3798797/fovajujuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/56501833770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolemontagna.it/userfiles/files/laxefalarifurutut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/53906943220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ffd4a3d6a---12862462910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/74077941198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/jofepifavovozadifalewevuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mesorubelalol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/89732712861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe028a8f4a---45456908674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/27164507557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/fapowunukodezixavurafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb85615687---zepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bli3uger6aejkr54k28f043b7/21135455050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5519fe2e6775edd87f615017d145ff0a/57400735504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726a87e5715---zekekidapabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/99496763581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3319d61956---pivewowolarabob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/labede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f0d3acf35---dubenojunizugos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=tom+from+the+only+way+is+essexPDF 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_off00012015.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12015 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001382c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1382C 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 94cd21c5a226c20b000ffea34dc2c433f1c5da30a5c5db9434c6bef958861ae2
font_02_sfnt_off000150c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150C1 18348 bytes
SHA-256: 930701ed5672de9f46fd1abbdecce312bb9c7a7bd730d3e2c57c2631282e1416