Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f02ada1b1f14198e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:37:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 324f2c780703a5f7f62f3244cd94834e SHA-1: 45c69b39e6b350ae28de8cc62e9a4b39e050a392 SHA-256: f02ada1b1f14198e59c302bda7fd2a7193b6647dc58ddc5526c4a50d77adc94e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised websites or malware download locations. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest a phishing campaign aiming to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tips+for+successful+interview+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/mupelukipiwalirobila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iproperty.ae/userfiles/file/biduwesajawawerosavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/detegiwemujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c3ece2ee4---72919458553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzgks.com/userfiles/file///40001123849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rfsl688ik5vu263nqn7u4re2g5/kikikezikivileliromeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1ad056a7b---sosorixusamumumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2dkm6r825lbpk6j5havf5veo0/81367043041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.lu/userfiles/file/jewozuwunikabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090934333669---99971218042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1960.com/clients/876325/File/saravumadorugawovefera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791ca69df8c---43609258907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/360b8e440abcb0979e821b54ef451566/61324543249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/takilamemezaweza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solener.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dunilajovoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/564f448b7ca6628736021b11274a37df/1669828109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f602bad578---94862102797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fa6145cf4---68892647750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/lirolexetusajegati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eeda967c01---tonuluketaxegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210625220403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k36umn9c2koqui6pc9h588sc7k/fabadututidaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73261c35b17a0ce695898f3de14b3894/32764607083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ifspannbh270smalebgktbh821/30375350823.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_off0000ca53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA53 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 4bf10206221fa05030d10d3f8516e2b14254fc1c97e457b562575a9f032b1d45
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F3 16708 bytes
SHA-256: e92464121bdead0cbf60a76355908cbfbef42bd36fe7c9ed0fd4065d66f81104
font_02_sfnt_off00010ddd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1