Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a02da7a9be8633be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.0 KB Created: 2021-09-29 02:50:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 008f730345cce1ff67e87ead77872311 SHA-1: ea0acbdccc64180d2f21b15f6aef0a729a670cde SHA-256: a02da7a9be8633be2c1ff6794382acf4befb9a8f82f356726521bdb69e9e65fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+loss+for+words
    • http://yey.uw52.com/upload/files/nalejemuzagip.pdf
    • http://www.eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86656595288.pdf
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300d611b4ac---lilironijodunugurojirixas.pdf
    • https://botroul.be/uploads/16692289097.pdf
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/sinilowitorefan.pdf
    • http://www.elstar.ru/uploads/files/gadenonirabelivuxinika.pdf
    • http://becskeicsodajo.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/20176980157.pdf
    • http://congseng.com/uploadfile/files/nuvezoxaxefo.pdf
    • http://liceoadultos.juniorcollege.cl/userfiles/files/rumogarujunemetazifekat.pdf
    • https://www.ojchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89329286720.pdf
    • https://hsdinstruments.nl/uploads/files/dexiwugisebowejex.pdf
    • http://harringtonassociateslaw.com/Test/JabzMedicalBillingService/userfiles/file/93081032206.pdf
    • http://generale-bureautique.fr/gdb/files/file/didar.pdf
    • http://tdbakademi.org/userfiles/files/80810277900.pdf
    • http://noavarservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66384518316.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615107ab6173c---rabiguvasalejavowuzew.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e7d1be3a40f1af97ade1f500603b7ea/17223829412.pdf
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/fenin.pdf
    • https://studioconcept-stand.com/fck_userfiles/file/79416030919.pdf
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d410d5f150---puwinemojenatugonubawepu.pdf
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/33177811112.pdf
    • https://webdatedepot.com/userfiles/file/21580004621.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ad36.bin
559bfb3240db2dde099610ba45655722c2426820c4938e89d88928dedd4be6a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD36 14520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d171.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD171 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e987.bin
69e40fdc52ff6fb513583a2a56f8308451b3da00a39a36bacf8cd90357ef623c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE987 9828 bytes