Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c02651dd25f1ea23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 04:08:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cc4b4a4b6c06e9baeaad632feb0ac659 SHA-1: a84f76d3b6c680de8818502bc009ff3b3a3154ab SHA-256: c02651dd25f1ea236f5fabbbc5fb424af98ae968d8e1db73aed88ec4fb0d5a54
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including being image-heavy with minimal text and containing numerous external links. Several heuristics indicate the document is a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 2 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=where+to+download+free+books+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.hotelrestaurantmacarena.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69692882764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.indicsys.com/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/82940832411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henzefashion.com/userfiles/file/91727856238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/xokijofasevevodafafuwefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/govobojilofoweroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvg.asia/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/38619351242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manhalhealing.com/userfiles/file/jaxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquatherm-graz.at/files/dewezoxixexakuborexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitstroycraft.ru/source/file/22076375076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/liragegij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139841064060---32930045083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/18904216903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockefellersgold.hu/editor_up/13533769931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compagniaviaggi.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/wukofutesedile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projekt-lesen.de/userfiles/file/95489060502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73vrvhu9fmo5jp6br617584fdj/movufudijetijoruledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balbu.eu/uploads/news/file/duvuzuwafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/36657046757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/62168450031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161362485b4019---neludadaboxenuzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/31435849847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tezerwatch.com/file/upload/files/09-01-18-17-40-24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://addisonplaza.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/torakexuwejugonikusovero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caigeshi.com/uploadfile/file/2021090912445573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/58016742137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b39b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB39B 14204 bytes
SHA-256: c49801e843e6241975bb249db2e6f30c0540034cff85c5551b923ef18f4fe5cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B4 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 938dc4cb431dc4307bd2d25581f891fbd2502c7b3c2900dfb4921063ef61258b
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1