Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02ea34ad77c8fc49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-28 06:30:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: d5cfc3377c6b31d003d7885c887ef621 SHA-1: c4858d59e271926753714691ad18a25e1827572c SHA-256: 02ea34ad77c8fc49b614df678699d5614825dbd20dca2162ca898d1ab021548b
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a single image, typical of a screenshot designed to trick users into clicking embedded links. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting suggests a link farm intended to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' further indicates a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+platinum+randomizer+nuzlocke+rom+download PDF link annotation
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/26812068706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e8d5b9abd3429221af66484ef8c0a23/61443906186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servauto.fr/img/user/file/pululofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/67380604407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///buvusuriwimezij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donahoelawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/katadibunutupudugewedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u9do5k9b2pu8sfnpgo1s7mf9h2/8544743254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lefaripakofiwomobipomave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carmakers.cz/userfiles/files/30469321097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f05d0e5f1c---33919037053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/54155723395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a0a207d01a---mixutotogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1544-7419.net/upload/fckeditor/file/42887714531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fong-cai.com/upload/files/pewuxubinufigaroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021923135791021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/88194712692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/gasudinubuzekuperi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e3f5cf991---dekiridunuvatubumabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukaiart.com/userfiles/files/56388976320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istruttorecinofilo.it/userfiles/file/giwisosijawesumuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909065640189807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iknow.pl/files/file/53810482714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maimungkorn.com/UserFiles/file/68744836649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326e26909db---zetekisuxisonisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/8937925371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caraudioshop.ro/mm/file/fuxumugopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b22b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB22B 13884 bytes
SHA-256: b3104c3ea275669495f6cab7b8e22d71d1e97ec96a00533d89f297730869dca1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d499.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD499 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 406d355991dabf00ddff203388d638837588fceabb2986d72d4b16e2ef45b0ba
font_02_sfnt_off0000edae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1