Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f02cd0265723f16b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:35:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cfcc86129825117d651de0c46eb1927b SHA-1: 94ce8de20aa660a53d8cb4c986d6477c34986a73 SHA-256: f02cd0265723f16b26578a13c22153478356887e9c9c63879201d5bb35e9d6be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports its role as a lure or distribution point for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kompres+foto+android PDF link annotation
    • https://fancybox.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59504158490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/4324069803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/20595764637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingbikeonline.com/images/upload/File/retorudatikotezaxedavan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325f6bde578---bapisuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuyu.010bi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29152921847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbu56dub390imon6f7vsfokmif/65010402825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/44806671625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sintasyapi.com/img/userfiles/file/xifedozatitituvuluxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livingkaneohe.com/userimages/regumagaromo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/sopizuwofagarelufifedebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hypotekaprezamestnancov.sk/res/file/ramanevokidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/73335305695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viviapalermo.com/userfiles/files/30746974592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/gafukejuritusofaram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392a11228d2---netumifimezevapil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taimaobi.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bogigexar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forexinc.ca/upload/editor/file/24959577715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emj2krt7up2aqq2l1eq7763t9e/volutefoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daechienglishpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89091122107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/userfiles/file/befododepororoninelelilu.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_off0000c63c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC63C 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 0d9e2bccdba3c546ed114d6af21cf0f7ff757bc65a18487657f7bc5b081f0575
font_01_sfnt_off0000de6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE6E 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 0d505dfb87ae3229ded01d06a1f6dc50474dbeb75047c1198ff534138310c377
font_02_sfnt_off00010a24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1