Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a02a3f9e83daf6d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 20:13:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fb6e1fe7fbc32cfead4592e0dd72bd80 SHA-1: 80bd4107e7f2ee395117166f1971cf025bed449d SHA-256: a02a3f9e83daf6d744f601e5311dccc5921195d8c98b796d991054ba4e5b0f0d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. Several heuristics indicate these links are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the PDF, likely a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/83341778442.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hongphuc.vn/userfiles/file/22247321887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simoncaulkin.com/images/83598879236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gitialiganjlko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lokivev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elverum-revmatiker.no/images/file/88598228765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feldbach-tourismus.at/files/69285748593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albriug.com/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/84596224016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134504ba4ff7---lukenexewuwakumonowet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammensfilip.be/uploads/files/butidigidupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biznesfishki.ru/files/userfiles/files/56212585770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74cb68a200fb8d5afa1467929bbfa589/72267929103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://178.62.148.222:300/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33752882697.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7bf6ba778a2266d33b15cc06a85d335/52186734864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ciesol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69607063423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smartlandgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40811566391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/pemezubigiwonobafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi-m.ru/userfiles/file/fasovojukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajezedupudovibusekaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.keizerco.nl/userFiles/file/rojubezixibusik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit.ru/files/file/95757122770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2c1972ec4---83113108527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/61504844563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buxiboriwoborofonanejasus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=stream+the+fight+for+freePDF 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_off0000dc23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC23 10416 bytes
SHA-256: b48ca727bc9c62219cb1967036a79fee2435fdde76bc42ef327885ff45e62efa
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C6 17672 bytes
SHA-256: 014d11b14f5938458b8c93f2ea6d8fa9a7ab5fe3f5d4fe4711e43a1311794010
font_02_sfnt_off000121c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1