Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 602bcac2ec80d1b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:21:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f332e9883f9c8c666bef93b438f157a3 SHA-1: 45f6448194dfc8c699f6c9fbbbf3ac3b3ada9b0d SHA-256: 602bcac2ec80d1b97893be3dbf0c3482e27653b26070033acd1c24c40d7ec273
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=squared+paper+pdf+1cm PDF link annotation
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608501f356b21---92199270124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/12181407133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/128b75990d5f7f56e51e11335e653453/sokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/5072216926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4x4autok.hu/userfiles/files/busesovazonilazowito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f47cd0d6972bc45917b8e80c7476ffc/79666682051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://96stone.ru/userfiles/file/71651735637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/80307589400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/luvakubuzosisotukofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cd2367bbd5bcfdd8371fe3423cc9ea7/3343622797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55e5e641c2c8b3072ddaa3393ac97668/nebinuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87a5df6a27a4ad8567f546152588fe69/kububizativebizeridunepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologicatoscana.eu/userfiles/files/27208573522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3bbc9f48f---tidebajuboduxudewowus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075425b85d81---2719933996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbde8dcc15---91582397816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorumeo.it/userfiles/files/14662091456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lactopad.com/uploads/files/pewejusudalirewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pslub7o74r5n8e6svmha8o41ou/91339910213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/kufinatemisut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/70028472600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/kuxipusawixepojokupixelen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/tojigukut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vp-dmsh.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nomamusaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ra8lr0pafgs5akk8ploi0tkihg/86739286918.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_off0000bec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEC1 16536 bytes
SHA-256: 5c0e8c93ae24c834f46d4d6e12748cbd3e28a6eef8ad3e7c70270289e81653cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AD 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 0cda46ac65c4b2494145662e9c1549b35ce6d015142a13a82479e82c17257606
font_02_sfnt_off00010081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10081 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1