Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02e457856f967707…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:49:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 977e9f461f2542119aa3714dd5b9a04e SHA-1: cdd905816f04366127317ec5f803649f38f45676 SHA-256: 02e457856f967707d98d5b354632344cdfa4e8f5ada4e8caed02337f841da98b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/2500882249.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/376c8685c38dc23dbd245ed0066ab862/67093338848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210903131646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyros-club.de/userfiles/file/46487146894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0357cff09d358556b6a845e03468598/zupabetodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/59195137484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/32750365352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalper.ir/data/files/file/55709971720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsnowodworze.pl/userfiles/file/43708978819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linza-market.ru/upload/files/46194806490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dc4a4301ca---xusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gifarlcm.com/upfiles/editor/files/11381334810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creptiles.dk/userfiles/file/10619832868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/widekuwelewigipivikob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6811269fe7bccb5a04b164df5509f080/48613043596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117c560999d9---pimabivix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe50b80e48973f7d935bd4364e75e83d/xubowoxetilurozigikeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765e27c09ca---balulogesesiwugorafon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f494d5255---domixitavopofewopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e1947ff39---74254665640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/gepixusaxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608959e0a18eb---21000384656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitneyclan.com/clients/c/c7/c7afcfad87c307b096642b2e35f52d25/File/weduzedugemuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c7f7b90dd4c4c3bf83a0e4cceb7bde4/61420311258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=drop+shipping+business+guide+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_off0000e41f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE41F 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 60d58b2dd7b1b293dd927d11321bb1dd2a95189abeea068a548a47a8b753113d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC27 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 19cb247dec6b477a415aaf270d8cdf6a3c3ec22f6d270eb51574b7b9cac959ef
font_02_sfnt_off000127a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1