Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b02c9c21f26b9b6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:27:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 71720262017d87d06a65b1e79310daca SHA-1: 8ea6a429e79978e752388d73685289331ebad8c1 SHA-256: b02c9c21f26b9b6cf446793dd88f712c0d98c14f1a11d30473ed979806845065
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11b72dabcb---22201041096.pdf
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/76744988343.pdf
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/77780595700.pdf
    • https://rockdental.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37e8c6e09e0d2f41ddab2bc275795ab7/11029931690.pdf
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/gikupape.pdf
    • http://dchs80.com/clients/c/cb/cbc185099defa3274d3d4f74835fd64f/File/josaton.pdf
    • http://duplisite.com/userfiles/file/7097525551.pdf
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/97578063754.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7be0075401070fc5f8c6e3f17e3727e/vakiti.pdf
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4brcjpt16meuvlj0i54ielnee6/7080438305.pdf
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a046f06bcb---96140163480.pdf
    • http://metisentry.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97079757406.pdf
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/juxuvi.pdf
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/61728309683.pdf
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sko38oem6kdnu4o22j5tbt7ro1/wiwobamamisowid.pdf
    • https://music-group-store.com/upload/files/88216216525.pdf
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/vitapiwobazinivibalaze.pdf
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fba4d2143a26ee89dac2582965960fc/bavomejirerebedezo.pdf
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/wokelapokovupemavedog.pdf
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825108b6753---fojukulos.pdf
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a649266c4bf---6716220297.pdf
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e1fc1a983b6eb725d394d688e779b02/rugemusipojiganugesabub.pdf
    • http://penney1970.com/clients/7/74/747debde904cce1d9d58e62e9103e361/File/zovubuniliberuwumuma.pdf
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c286085125---xefipo.pdf
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/50786094892.pdf
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d800185800---11501045892.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=social+science+class+6+book+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_off0000c366.bin
097461d72306d426f00d8cc281fd508c27b3e443a641e44295a3f9ef65e3426b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC366 10888 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc6d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC6D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f47f.bin
67cb35e159a4218afdef1937e1203d88067bff65e401beee0473595be3ea6666
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF47F 19256 bytes