Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 602de2eb7dfe5d11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-07-14 06:09:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5e6f544ddd8147691cd3a3f2d44118d3 SHA-1: 192fac0e2591d2778d2149b680cf6ff803850bf3 SHA-256: 602de2eb7dfe5d1119ab65c39c8670ee77793a8066a1d933d534942266c6976e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to direct users to phishing sites or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=grade+8+government+exam+papers PDF link annotation
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/vaxutilarefexipazul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a469dee7ce8---94704114675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdaaf0dc480c9a50571883f7693d839a/44901654548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joewhitefamilysite.com/clients/59967/File/xikuxewuvijezotapivavulev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v1khl2cklhmjdlch5f5t3s0fpa/zatagujewimigobalidifivum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a97ef1d2fa52b1faa37c9e0f80516adc/25473314164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a2b36cfbc59d47991c2cb3414bc6ed9/56631016609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc7aba7341---verekabeponuwoziwugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/zililasoperamadis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmercury.com/uploads/files/galetizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce4b482998---4313678086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/totakefuwapokinovidufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gsrik59kllk42amtfclk0bg4nt/nubuwole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7b00a2023a7242bc9ffe0078e6fd915/kasubirizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bb4d08620dc246425de2ad16f8435de/95259810771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theknowledgeonline.com/files/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77852794686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76akp3npt3fjgfucce1ht7jido/worotuwaroxipoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd06493b195---10284663875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.com/uploads/images/files/38270760562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/5367965696093f97e0a905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dda1b164726659d996e8cadd90e2d662/belix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/170rnsc2nei5g1kaq81vsbq145/gazafepavenopitikoluw.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_off0000d4f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F0 16860 bytes
SHA-256: ea8b7061843c2fccd7dc44f6ec4016d5e5b17efd7041351e53988005ecd63ccb
font_01_sfnt_off000100d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118ED 11012 bytes
SHA-256: f94b118ac6ba5737fd4c0cd9c959bc6adbdbde1d2f2a46e91e658925f7be9bb2