Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02eb2bddde279301…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 02:06:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 068d19e44cef293e02396b9ae3b33f64 SHA-1: 2b5f04994156714944f0bc07634c3d903663d8ef SHA-256: 02eb2bddde279301b1487de28b98f299c7b211c8b618253f94ef764a8282bf85
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. An embedded JavaScript stream was also detected, which could be used to further exploit the user or download additional payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://ecoquimica.cl/dinamicos/uploads/file/wufule.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gexararipifibufaromajag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/nizusuwifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regionalhealthprogramsww.com/images/file/93197158943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f616e8d8f2---20632946914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honderhotel.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210912134835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroambulans.pl/userfiles/file/judumuxaratiwopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--82cac8d3ajrc0gd0bo4a7nf3qg.com/userfiles/files/sekipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupa-energia.pl/attachments/file/wunedutoxaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saothienemb.com/uploads/images/files/82920564750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2c625099c---59605311946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakianco.ir/data/image/uploads/news/files/fuguxafasogudezopakanus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taketty.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80117463992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harlit.com/upfiles/file/vogezezifagiwukupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/werubijuliralenezoxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alident.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/27689859650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mots.alaxarxa.cat/cmsimple/images/file/64560289578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profil-metall.de/content/uploads/file/77953668139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sithome.com/upfiles/file/20210913040858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/fevupusese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citytrafik.nu/images/file/juxefokapelitenarutefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hophungvietnam.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/35223356283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135bc1c5dac6---32358885986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae2a59610af79a18f733b006dbd5abcf/18724379148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=kotlin+fragment+get+contextPDF 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_off0000e418.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE418 10604 bytes
SHA-256: b9294e4a58986a67897c3c20e23b9e4331cca2e511969b6083c2bb7c71f69f6d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC53 17424 bytes
SHA-256: bf7facef6a892ae0449db3aebdf60092f7bc2e6de40bb98b785e50521bec289d
font_02_sfnt_off00012a5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1