Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02f646fd8db1fdc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:18:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 61e89fab73e1c2201678ec1d7f96649b SHA-1: bdedc1764cbc7acae3380646082d7f70851ce1b3 SHA-256: 02f646fd8db1fdc857f9e91fc9827ff48f1a5fe4a23d5dd2dd4dde1218446627
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs further supports the attack pattern of luring users to external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=swallow+in+the+sea PDF link annotation
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860f9c2540a---86502641499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0aee832538eb1f31832dd297bde0471/80737387145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salondebellezaanamariaromero.es//ckfinder/userfiles/files/jifanasegelepopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pj4vn82a94nsjkvvd989l9qai6/8163342080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f6ef37f2fc5fbe99f637b2ad81d792c/giguwonevesivipifutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/majulokibomuget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eo3s4148jt0inv7gkpi97sctp6/41626313560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/48885324127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05cfc5e69f2c3fcf1c3180eff82fd3f6/64378535877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/79244387894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e71a30493a72aeb6ffcb5ebc7f20f7d7/lajanoxetiluwifuvilepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a47deccdba6d4068cf6c9cccd82a3b2b/zijivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/34833973505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wita.lt/images/files/47558742105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712e474633a---bowijonimolutotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermaktif.com/imgup/file/keloravufapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/015b2c1eefa30228a9ac05d6b7d94924/81116428425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwferrellpkwy.com/uploads/files/29316790374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/509ee34b640cb521194553bbb4e93ce5/wodusifaliwufif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f97a948107---furejozowejuwibifogoxene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/gidixanaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/18771251564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14baf07876---wumup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097321d9caab---44716558882.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_off0000eb4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001035d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1035D 28668 bytes
SHA-256: db203a277a7cc1b328f4a50a0cfabd2f15556f1daf4537644e3f5a666ee3ff88
font_02_sfnt_off00013ccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CCF 10264 bytes
SHA-256: fcaac4f0c3a6101db68cb65eff8c76d32ac51a1c5714d2e0dee5cc26653ff06e