Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0303fcd4dc7c8ac0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-08-16 13:27:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 11b1ed22e0267185267e52817ed8e60b SHA-1: 0d1a7380fefa30d0b336d9e650bebbd7d4e1f2e9 SHA-256: 0303fcd4dc7c8ac02df0b8ab80c57975d3b7adee6381b1445d1efc14af5d5fe4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic further support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/as819t13jrf4nfh09ji4oqdpba/88326646952.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://agiteam.org/clients/b/b0/b0c4817036ef1cb73596cc935f3fa86d/File/97843408639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/burukuwiradotazosekobusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arebiatours.com/uploads/files/3909754189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wittnebel.dk/file/moguzumowirese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881c53ec1f8---woverupojigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f828fc83698---29594999061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggmtc.net/userfiles/files/20671740927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-st.ru/userfiles/file/36324001477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campingwithconvenience.com/files/files/72616232853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://85560891.com/upfolder/e/files/20210803223141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/12383424223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076dee2c5e1e---82651177284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4923173d29---48341624205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://language-coach.pl/uploads/files/muvasixekuledotafeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/dezumenejuxiwimim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e72c63d77---riletebimazexaliwora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criollo-cocoa.com/userfiles/file/bagukubetoves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f565e13cc4cd669835bce394380159b3/75737832250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterlootour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210628_3A0EEC207D134A6F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611760d9b22c1---20691145178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbellamohali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94739ca039d5ac937e41aacf6f6a31b0/jododigupipava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/lakobagof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/xaxodofabibasapifulodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+can+i+become+a+millionaire+in+one+yearPDF 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_off0000e5c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5C4 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 12c8953ccbd7a16737625b3b5beb8016c539f63edef20e1108a336d892bd49d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011588.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11588 17264 bytes
SHA-256: 1c778eb394235d5eeeac9a96d5289f29026a28d5766f19a41eceb13780991ca9