Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d02dfffa0b55c569…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-07-29 20:22:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 91a3774f04f683afed91e98ddad5ca8c SHA-1: c5adacfb1e67aaad0fa261205be8aa2f73564d28 SHA-256: d02dfffa0b55c56949c595a81cf1177feef4cb0174f7069cd1c35bd97af46a4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV detection for phishing and trojan activity. It contains a link farm pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate an intent to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://oilandgaswork.com/userfiles/file/33008128099.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nhs71.com/clients/d/d9/d9c6bfbc4bbdd207836d30c01fe5869c/File/sesatukikasedax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/favexowinulebobolibupiwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs71.com/clients/d/d9/d9c6bfbc4bbdd207836d30c01fe5869c/File/kizuzajakexorifok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/53026714960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijtm.in/userfiles/file/99432386205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/54377991748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meimagedance.tw/ufiles/files/47373445509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af09f861438105ddc886986e79a0ca25/25411136201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbman398217gmuhn2vkmsm1mp3/82537763809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba522d7e84f---bomuxerolusozuvifatabogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f9fd34a2281a755b24da72f8700b952/1068095982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99b9b7ed64ab43ac664b23eed309c400/nobobirevorafinawoded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a490f1faa---14578088655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c193200dc35---nuwafikijosafupaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9kmr7ab9ll7j8ol9nqmmbe6i0/55810350877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/loburarex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalper.ir/data/files/file/norisovinikuvugexerofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medosojewellery.com/userfiles/files/27568681417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99e57beac877d73654ccfbf4a03df397/81542948999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talani.nl/userfiles/image/file/65471381438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=skf+bearing+housing+catalogue+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.posluh.hr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kawolujugewugul.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_off0000baf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d30b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD30B 15288 bytes
SHA-256: 42c06796a5e61f74d33192ea247e15bd84c9934bd5fc2b109b3fdcfdeff4a091
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA27 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 3acdc3b0941bc9429dcd36b1774e5bee368c660a5250afb059ac356053261e4f