Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02fe7c2a18ea9963…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 22:32:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 47e14d340168d0d67ab690fc1acbed2d SHA-1: 552e136450f9c6c634d31d87f967459587e2eaae SHA-256: 02fe7c2a18ea9963edb3ed721b7d725d113d54fa2251ac07f4d51951b0c23fe3
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 or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9769

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://fletcherfamilyreunion.org/clients/52745/File/6095160275.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776795bb219---65969044222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/bokarelijetuxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4099324da7---85239353781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2ad975577464c9547cef3b13e98126b/janoluvinito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/dejoxaterawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dpupv6s1seuhhi5i833k60s6u6/puwisurewimedofofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9fca786823---32180732070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/lukaxalabiwezozep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northcity.rs/slike/files/vesifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/3755592746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4363bbea43---66098759064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56f0fbe0a8ef6eaa24057e2b01b31060/24103438394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/visipunefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjqzzx.com/uploadfile/file/2021070319320373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e020299c9e6d58c6d63a3a80d0b52c3/mevupuzusolotobujebub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd684e8629e81ab32554e6c2351b5b06/gejajikexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e3b512fd9db0f1744f9da43e3776c74/62161321802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t327ktn7r74h3sphr564s2br7l/nasisodokufejuviwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/925bbd140d3a93dc5d406a3ea74c3b46/60652279500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafordexstudents.com/clients/0/05/05b3dbe7dd9dc6f92b523d2b721f2ffd/File/73716049625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everestart.com/images/stories/file/37439394199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/21313565574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/69714500718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnimeina.it/userfiles/files/93097432905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t864iji9c64ldjjovs91brpm4c/41647228119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67787ae0082c07e73d7955501d51d916/10954462789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=python+complete+reference+book+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fabb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000112cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112CC 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 74ea40c6abafff908ba0a862ebf25ee1d47d31f530ca964bdc695191fb21b084
font_02_sfnt_off00012825.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12825 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 8752f963bb4cf7afacf1c5dbe3a1831ad6c0234b2eadc40ed5e7f8154eb32ce5
font_03_sfnt_off000140a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140A4 19024 bytes
SHA-256: 0d73f140589ddefbf2e8fb9942d0f0646190e0b73ff59c95de2aab11b3197ad4