Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b02ed34bf7d0d69a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-08-03 00:46:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5d962add07132bd32aba23024d126c59 SHA-1: b48fedd3af5c70ffdc0e32faeb9f4829c13416e8 SHA-256: b02ed34bf7d0d69a7baf97f07216ff5382c275992eb3defb02951d894f39d5f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The heuristic firings indicate a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious intent, possibly involving embedded JavaScript for redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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 http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d020c25f50---vewesojika.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/dasifexubasalol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p59soietnfch60qj2m077elhp5/13195750002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/toxabutagara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b076f7b261f---nukifapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgadt3fonli8vkme50hdevuqid/17167391675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reitinguok.lt/userfiles/file/tuzuvokimesuzalevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fedb7c4fda---21991094657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b6f5a279ec50743b0e85909c4b26f4b/vefolujiwinalixukonowute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7c79880e1---semajerumuzaxosirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/60096460236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/40053407266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/91929923809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac20eca5d08---murererif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607718dc1fc7b---wasidutapewimiwuwujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deepakbatteries.com/uploads/file/49117055578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luchetti.it/userfiles/files/pobalipudikaraxufiviri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785ce008cdf---12928477944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/41722920071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swalaya.in/userfiles/file/vipikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wittnebel.dk/file/pegamupupomeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qytbearing.com/upfile/file/89810510840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=bartimaeus+the+ring+of+solomon+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000f5b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010dd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD0 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 10310fa06fe76862634d15f693a9176b36d09483bfab1845524f29978fdd87d7
font_02_sfnt_off000127a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127A8 17864 bytes
SHA-256: ed5086656f2560b69863c163aeed18a122eb6f49acd1de36c737f2f37c743644