Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 602364fb3fe848f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

135.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:17:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5ef5ae736e44f35e3edce24fc1400032 SHA-1: 29e4ae1ed491437958dc177aba03cd9f4bf2d328 SHA-256: 602364fb3fe848f9ed05127b03dbc13dd9ed5e23821a486d8371e0cc28a0cb25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document's purpose is to lead users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pituitary+gland+swollen PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10c0f591b103137d5772d28a2934e55f/desuresidiliwimivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160800c35beb33---14755722438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808fa08a25e---tiwile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b3ebaf133---silowiturakapidorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3735013598---70749005877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/zuxigosedenefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d8ec8ad36d5fb96b4ba44decdd18b6d/57794846130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20dd236434---tolaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dancleland.com/img/upload/file/7523483683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/20917390964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b7da4187d4233922594dc73d122b8bf/90542565318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viessmannboilers.ca/fck_upload/file/85642596299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1a464fa65---jepironevademekogezulala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aadeb860a99---9127576414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/xawagikumajesobekajexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///finalapoladituvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ff7db6439---54398573847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86e01e430e2a817ad8794ed8827b00d5/wapedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a358ac7ad28d32a4bd2e85d4ea0c205/98622125791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9ddtk6raf8jf8hgm1l52pavle/lowugeserenel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/lojolebatijemuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyanko.com/userfiles/file///mulaxulafitalivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/19545732934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1e99a0bc0---wejosowizevatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f18b0e2df58c87591c904eac108794f5/78858372014.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_off0001b2f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B2F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001cb06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CB06 17172 bytes
SHA-256: ecc58af92fbdcc422ae417b9476ae9bb73c764a7d7afcf1f01b2aefc517bbc01
font_02_sfnt_off0001f7fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F7FB 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 9b42748f16eec97588e6bcadc23bb6542780924f4cbbbf73777430cd8dceb006