Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a02631630075b46b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:37:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 256f8f5688ee7b4e1c099029f311d881 SHA-1: 254e9541efa30ce5b56de388cce5f8e5c84a916d SHA-256: a02631630075b46b4b0cbbf7879166100860bdc90d7eb5a2c154766718123e06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://walkercombsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/df/dfd517ab040340b2551da60fba195f5f/File/91530705476.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5351qmo7h11bru40kr2vheem7/12517193725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/86663647704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610665bf7bb1c---55969732697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e6874ccd8---jofivin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c45fb771e27---fekomexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wu-pao.com/upfiles/editor/files/59765140673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf6e9a2f47b---defakobixewomazimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/64432455407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventadeterrenosurbanos.com/userfiles/file/38083725574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/wimetesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japan-railpass.info/images/blog/file/bowodog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada531c2677---tutujavemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshanwoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fasiduwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b775hmm86g1142vkvq41850bf4/2803912240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/33817038164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/62336509855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/kuzoxekuzeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb10f7d0d0---wunebepupubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3178c15c0439e841968722060dbd3e26/34510271394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mab-solutions.fr/upload/file/ravobajenijavaxogov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahgrp.com/uploads/93458529448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=aneuploidy+disorders+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_off0000db0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB0E 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 38c1683b5129fa7f96b9db80dbf2fa705c0157e1dbfefe7ed6abc7e224b2d127
font_01_sfnt_off000108af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C6 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 089c244aa69d86874413ff6791dae127d12299442c456fb83f27ac2d2c5d3f03

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