Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02e7214f52872740…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-24 05:55:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f84c12c5f4536248dec17c354bcc801c SHA-1: 533c9fcc37e09e3605924590ab4b170d9864ca90 SHA-256: 02e7214f5287274063bb305da563bd690b70e5c159a160f03fcc70927b3861c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via a link farm. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://xn--80ab1a9a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/mosaredajuwisukefom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abwingstop.com/uploads/files/39672985727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/visefibatejozuvasananu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/padixatowujotazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac99346404---40669156642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesomenoise.hu/upload/file/75692660631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biothiennam.com/media/ftp/file/wiviwarobizux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/koriwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c76c5b3d446---74426804668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2809bef075---43971937064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdhsalumni.com/clients/28864/File/depajuxikaxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60e9bfb02cf7005a02b7d36a6f2841c/bemilijojupeperibafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schooldistrictservices.com/clients/f/f6/f6ab1571d2cdf5e569af7b76e288b17c/File/porujubupodadogejorar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/76957838499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nblbrf2jeqripj2s58neh2ognq/65918363397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/38983500414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01dc88c9300d31e4da18d6583bc306ce/tifetowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/ruzawojopuredasaxuweki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a312baecde2---sanizupumagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e66f6c223---juvumerisaxuwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824dcda51b7---sofezisorikodamisodutim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/majuzudusugokupurufuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ahcjevtqq.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57825219404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a814632c0b1ad48be2c13e3de69e5f1/79225617645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b1924bf353e6deffe59788a6955a883/26604370009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10606e146ec1b9ef84565c0ac0fb4a3c/22178215616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=trabajos+para+primer+grado+de+primariaPDF 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_off00010072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10072 10720 bytes
SHA-256: f052d55a4a580e911afb85d5fa838cb305398cd9e7b451e750b96eeee07af3a4
font_01_sfnt_off00011890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11890 18444 bytes
SHA-256: aa3cb130ed577c6c3cf68b71c2ba8f08d1e58312a71db307726fd02a009570d7
font_02_sfnt_off000146e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1