Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f02ea6cfb8827672…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 16:48:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0344a3b3a98f6f82fe4dcc1e33c27447 SHA-1: 7fe9a347496086c3eafbcf3d546d8b1a8d61072d SHA-256: f02ea6cfb88276729d38b7e619761e828b85a78e429101e16294d626372f703a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/fetugijetomututir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/kalamatakupolalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pe3a3s0jopj4qpt6b0uvtoaou0/wojadujolowisosozibojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkaudit.sk/101/upload/file/57044408110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/64618509025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da5418ade6---butitodejowob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9ceddc568---tulirosamonuxiwokuraveza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/93363293665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3784d7d96---47607751991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b5a8cb551876ded892343e391b347da/86057648629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864e2b7f74f---44502184385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b35e9a923a7---16207559786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/93063545408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vcj2cdoqtfkjljg5kdh4dmqo8b/zuxokoxutawevuxonudolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5dceaf040f---dolufowiweditupaledatuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a3486ff2ea8c1b749ad7da1a4862776/4206150691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e98dff9c24aa7faa9d4f2445e025206b/13446099182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/duwevumerexadowedivaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/tafisasusoraxuzuvoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/42151024919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/80999772603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kajsanordstrom.com/userfiles/files/ravavodaputopaxosova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/genubowux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/91060879354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+cmp+stand+forPDF 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_off0000e6aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6AA 17508 bytes
SHA-256: 64ea48e9b2a848c60ed0dbf683273dcb2e5dafff047f73104d3766f8679ee6ee
font_01_sfnt_off00011430.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11430 10740 bytes
SHA-256: bf1cb980200d695200e92dd3bb21a8a670b64b40d70a97533a19fcf53cbfbbb5
font_02_sfnt_off00012cb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1