Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e02191450a110ca4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-07-26 19:58:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1a5f97390786689ba47c822d15873940 SHA-1: f3f4c0c2c9f93010ad2ef6ffc20651697c76970a SHA-256: e02191450a110ca4e87e4729b1bba77936f4eadd7b991121a6aafb05128925cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9653

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db10b65008e---89448729305.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/punutegunozeguvewawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2015.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29031938655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elektrostroy.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dilozazowegagigexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/pilunotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da4867d414---duvaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/mejisusoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/figuwukusatuxunej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c3160010c---24861623138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/wexizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e730adb43a---61099994727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9p4fdeprk3d10b2uh2r9gquvr/vapukafupofap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://famecosmica.it/file/42577752257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28996834549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/9545766116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/bezuzokakup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31e902d9c32f73cce1666be752e668f0/72523775319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/98144696330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/bovobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/70594253173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cbd4fbe7691ba375281ae347ecd7f05/9188162786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5347b2bd7---jamefidadepulelolopifisuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/901ea9df843ddf2e0dde3c02c044a6c1/lapasivopetimawotulimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739116e0adb---98060289869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c60983859---54829600233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/29085310702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=f01+error+code+on+battery+chargerPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000108fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12109 2700 bytes
SHA-256: 3e4cf87b18b5b7705f15506036511d6fe72a95b0568cfc0b80c5ff8fe61e0e9c
font_02_sfnt_off00012cc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CC6 10748 bytes
SHA-256: d7a357d5052df8e5bcc82297e781f1503d75534b7bf815b493ee78b641803699
font_03_sfnt_off00014538.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14538 17476 bytes
SHA-256: 6fc801d4fb83484675d5f3bc50ae78453a5eaded605a61cb55436ebc3651e8f0