Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 802dc766ce809662…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:57:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f857d6cf6bc3f226ca30a155ed5e011e SHA-1: 25cfd0c94ca6c04f0c5bff56b10592803a5519fa SHA-256: 802dc766ce8096625844bb77c3477da9deec1d0eb4017b14be8f3e0c61fb0352
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/46999835577.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f17b16064b---sefebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/benibefilinitanaxokoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e026036b879eed408112e5e1544b309/33124987778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/18378102013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/70792578551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weyergans-hcc.lv/userfiles/file/38173480618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efd4b2e2139---wosawatut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff30078f098---53843623249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c643ebefc---68441543203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7f5glusee4dhogidrqgbnt6mf/92725465912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmed.vn/upload/files/35693792140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607153a742b56---23519320814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainindo.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/47772659973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160961f8e8f5a5---vesozoruvonavudaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/91847699284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkphotocon.org/data/userfiles/files/92765594411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766048d6c40---kaxukakeremufud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610816540ba08---femasapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s4l.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/sosifudarozipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607609fa03cbb---rajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607382fbacf46---fuwibogapivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shellserva.nl/docs/Image/file/80534076458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18eb9729062fff051a93f42e330d1287/fomaxuwosebapuxewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=marketing+in+travel+and+tourism+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000106d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D6 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 0ba5ad3c59c11aab256cdbaa84cf858f16770b86a7f4d5b13a41ac6c181a1c20
font_01_sfnt_off00013458.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13458 11092 bytes
SHA-256: e0360beea80bc73877ff9ce676cb9204c288fbf4d78953d8b43519b155d80042
font_02_sfnt_off00014e06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1