Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e02f8b3bd1ed39b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.3 KB Created: 2021-07-19 12:42:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 02a816ccdf6401ba57e994c417bd7a7f SHA-1: 1451700b37897246b7bb53d8be979eeb3d28c1a7 SHA-256: e02f8b3bd1ed39b6eda8744f73a2c421f2c7df4c0bd1620f86205e1a4a1404c1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The presence of a 'link farm' heuristic and multiple compromised domains indicates a likely phishing or SEO manipulation campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://carlojans.com/cms/file/rilev.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2654b4f8dac9ee7535c04a43754e3fae/dawazoradenovibopuser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lp9f35e10f81v7jukugte5ohhi/70594383724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f11db0c2f3a---71545250359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/tinupegixowuzovajabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de663e21417---wimunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhspartan79.com/clients/9/97/97d0d0788ec4d6723ba7be3cd58769e3/File/povowejixoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d4fc35c04---ropamizibopiwupirifupawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--k1akb4c.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/14802600441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/78587418616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sflni5qethvq1gpgrmj0sbar6g/45119924309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/bixejojujevovatudilid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d7724cb16---fulokulumoxuzogitusugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/volaxamalimufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b49bc2dda---20765712957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cd59da25a---16843471800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/77996858346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdqcr6defj199j0p578fgum7sf/zirajulifimipuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/12108907012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzwigipoznan.pl/userfiles/file/83186550303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/rivarifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiehollander.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/rulisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/80116548382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a237176bd76---80959564391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=famous+animal+rights+activistsPDF 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_off00017e21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E21 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 8b399e10e2a4d5937c2cac85c0d406d4683e2acb5ea000cbebb63f99794c64e3
font_01_sfnt_off00019675.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19675 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001ae87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AE87 19840 bytes
SHA-256: 8f886dcb07903860ab3a47f41ffec2d15eb94400ae8ddbd1c266f6742dc58424