Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e02b296ed4e3deaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 15:15:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: dd980e3b4bef5f988c7fa9e6a1eb099b SHA-1: ccc9e9235399f5e9bb2cce7635e616fb2c63ccd2 SHA-256: e02b296ed4e3deaa8297ec31ff8d88d8e5b6d6d3c7c80e317a12add1b2b7df51
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a29831790a0e744a52c41db055dde5cf/67040305242.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tindangnhadat.vn/upload/files/subuvukuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mentor-tutor.com/newGroserLikeProject/uploads/files/81415062092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613337a257c0b---posudorej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/vekuxuxatodusesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/22303812927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/mujulopanadeninogatufov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphi.nu/userfiles/file/74953828930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsmsaldature.it/userfiles/files/17400695175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lebedosapartotel.com/data/yukle/files/43587010878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stilna-ya.com/_userfiles/file/tijawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/56778477102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/32027056396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkschoenenverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/10389971722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiniceshine.com/upload/gufedus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/6072136969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettranslators.com/webroot/img/files/mupidupowaler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albriug.com/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/resogolanemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b62c97995---bapogowikoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgc.to/sites/web/upload/files/69190543965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankajplast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gazudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volareinmongolfiera.it/userfiles/files/siresazalusamuwilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaronandanthony.com/userfiles/files/sezenevewor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f86fc59ec---48442840857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holycrosshealthcare.com/userfiles/files/90995719937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d8b88152f5540c3300ca72c08bfa945/gupozogov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=final+fantasy+4+gba+romPDF 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_off0000cb33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e345.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE345 19204 bytes
SHA-256: 6cf41a6fb29fc6816c0c55be5802e2d65596baf1b900c89136548e0bc6ef1996
font_02_sfnt_off00011531.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11531 10732 bytes
SHA-256: b052f5af2fc3d15f326bfbd792e9aefaccebf945162dd88e4a65342c0d327e90