Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f02f04250a18c6b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:15:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6f39298bcac2d92871c3be280b808b70 SHA-1: 5b94a9e3d196142c7d4ac016bd1760599672a24c SHA-256: f02f04250a18c6b327a673867c0261412d22fdef0abaf8b4c66f9ebbdf949e98
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file, likely used as a phishing lure or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vw+passat+b7+owners+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://odontologosmalca.com/images/userfiles/file/jeduxagenoxetekabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coopinproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43413555312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fea394a3a0---95743919473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/949a497d99ab466660b599d33bf6cb82/bigadobuzomepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/firowob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/52854996447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/88843445796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tablica-nieruchomosci.pl/uploades/fckeditorfile/75581824675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/25226817028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/5140827343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/79905465130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d329c910c8---6487965191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e306276a43e678c25d2df02918986e7f/napedizujulizise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/87525938296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpmceramiche.it/file/revazajenuxegetowavoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galantemontagnana.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22479632211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozsersogutma.com/upload/files/pidomatunebepugimorukemuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://all-new-wow.com/upload/files/46761277845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e819cca859f---vimimavelexogokabudumoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/josoxoborakanoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eamenfaraz.com/cache/fck_files/file/7178644703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/zoraramolekazuvexokovadik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mountmoriahcamp.com/media/tevipijoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bpqvaos51st2g7m24nh60k9agb/16911299991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolonauticofavignana.it/userfiles/files/1172982368.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_off0000cf69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF69 19772 bytes
SHA-256: beba00a190651df6cdcc50966103dd548f7e9450898213afb7e660570e0479d1
font_01_sfnt_off0001024e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1024E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A65 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 51c9930f837e89a3ea2f332b3702f84acc0b3aa64a42a6ab5c1c636320c04edb