Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c02e7111cfc563d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-30 04:41:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0f04e602844869ae10321665ca5c1a71 SHA-1: 9c7a2949992914e830e7fcd3dfa77abd261cf159 SHA-256: c02e7111cfc563d94324c99b2157921b9ec498344224db8dfe1aada5bfd90657
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains embedded URLs, reinforcing the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/beromuzalafufigoriw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://room12shio4.com/contents//files/6845124762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e18cab6bd2---51005922188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608781be27dd3---55158453862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a6874106f69d48bff6c2fe612def0fa/lituvunogiwemoran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rfvmu38hbls9s0fks63sfirbrn/sopebililawofevar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979ac69f261---44309401201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bde46a8dba---44784928901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45769502451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallawallahighschool1968.org/clients/75819/File/gajusidalabil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-la.com/uploads/files/kamilonagetabenofud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majbrno.cz/uploads/files/70596407945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/zifidusuzidofadepigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/vuseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/94892508690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/97958277233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/lugutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba5737aa87---50350603244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldendazzle.com/upload/quangtri/files/kupukotaniveru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607227bce072e---nutesiwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36ba2e6484ea1bcee7a211e88087ee8b/lipalejibisabiridedew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gima.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vazixifepatapopubikol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pengyou-english.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210727_15F9D362723F3B8B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6ae9c17fc---xamufekebuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=prayer+for+comfort+and+strength+quotesPDF 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_off0000ec41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC41 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 39bf2bc24f45d5195600b03514e8cb0f9d3b86e2052fbb50685f8a6a6567ba61
font_01_sfnt_off000105aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105AA 16888 bytes
SHA-256: 7001adb251c08cdfa2c0c5d66c31ccb1f05a491ff2cdd90003485219a5653d5a
font_02_sfnt_off00013146.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13146 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1