Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 602d491223a4ac68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-08-01 03:42:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d5e5b70e0b6560b13f44bf4887df9ecd SHA-1: 584edc963719ad60068515cfe66de9f0360fd936 SHA-256: 602d491223a4ac68eb4b72ac36e06a72d514a612876dbbf296d3c72f3c5a36c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/gufos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608943a887105---85655533857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b92d5dc74---51862382362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14525de7cb---88720857375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3340c7f0f---66096608564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netisiletisim.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/bofadit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c8cc8ba4a6d2679078d49181c707647/xejafejerisivawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a40c1722918f77fe31532e1dd3cbb9bf/namevizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd7950b77c---22026328800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/jagefeposiruto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faceless.me/userfiles/files/wefaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105813674520---xajejubisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0c155583d---mosegifufidalazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/24378744416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e663caf6b3a69b79f92ec3a445c52a7f/96115684665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607773565e880---30903524568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hill-macktribe.com/clients/7/78/785e88641dcef8d5cadf71fa969cae92/File/dedovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctsa8b1qnubq2n9mr4dk8nh2r4/wodegikoroxiwiriku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summithighschool1958.com/clients/71652/File/39124971354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/faferisapofiruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a2a7d1dbc8446541fe3010601af4b80/gojerixokuson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f1943931b---24185456406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/58897843847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c872586af5547bdbbcb0ca0e8638715/78561414220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfde61571e394f1bcec0733dbc15a462/fotozaxinuvatosujut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=what+will+happens+if+you+cry+too+muchPDF 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_off0000f60c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF60C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E1E 17744 bytes
SHA-256: f02d7ecdd8d4ed86e7a66d634bcbfdd9cb8218c0a00c81a058bec44250f4ac0f
font_02_sfnt_off00013c45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C45 11040 bytes
SHA-256: d55586d20479be1f9c08fc502e9277df0251310b20d75f045f506490d7443cbc