Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df02dfb2d3c470ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 01:32:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fba481e499669b9b1ce3aa23809ee6f8 SHA-1: f8d56c0e9818d18e21aa5e9d7440f84eaf92bda9 SHA-256: df02dfb2d3c470ad9faca4d190f7d1e554cade61970c7dc1dc4be60088035612
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a phishing or malware delivery mechanism, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=r%C3%A9cup%C3%A9rer+photo+supprim%C3%A9+android PDF link annotation
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e178e6858---nuladazowomuwike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leguido.net/files/66043521755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtjjt.com/2013/upload/article/files/210915213542255013e84v3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takipcisec.com/calisma2/files/uploads/51209575576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flashdisplay.net/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210903044309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/gunemagedujazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161489376b04ef---kanaguxapafuralunarimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contemporaryteas.in/admin/uploads/file/51069244559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evrenmentese.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xudunabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55396094437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoa5aj.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46677189605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razredna-nastava.net/files/besovurubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domilot.com/uploader/files/10594007436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wieswioska.pl/userfiles/file/seruzesidegujaxuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88567708525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/doxidiraxizixikesax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobre-jaja.com/Upload/file/suluxodufupakadiwefele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielle-srl.com/userfiles/files/jefalole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nt-module.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21081398555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kehlux.lu/userfiles/files/felefarotuxojokepuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/59224701276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://073741256.com/uploads/files/202109061150302355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f03aab23677e65ba357f08265c2ee1e/luxedekegerupebobeli.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_off0000d9b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9B6 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 5a3fdeb2856ddb87606e6c879dcb4d5a6dbe73dbf9ca192e6dee67fdb3ca3522
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2EC 19252 bytes
SHA-256: 5b9209900bdd84b98581029d83cc495878cd929298a4e3cdb1238ebc51824c0e
font_02_sfnt_off000123fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1