Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03865a8099a17ac5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:45:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7baa24a35dad62764ac61dbef315ec47 SHA-1: 3a7b90eec3a7ccc47035cf2bd679994701d2cc5c SHA-256: 03865a8099a17ac5476247014da8848398db99449c58635d764b0e77812cd53e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's used to redirect users to phishing or malware hosting sites. The presence of a download button lure further supports this malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8efdf4c0c8---10474060643.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://indikino.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vutan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d526f5afd2a5e3d883a2b6e424864f8a/72582494016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c05c2c53825fd02e3e214ace833aad3e/54717261006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c7ba09827---milutekoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c16e5727463---tofavagabogiwetate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/gikelupovebepafotagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sigqurflcphr89l89afqtme947/86585034024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarytattoomachine.co/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/gudira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxerdapolenta.com/cmsimple/images/file/34830481872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbhsreunion.com/clients/21010/File/77570224843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce2bc73c19---dotiwagegisatul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanhotel.ro/beficientconsultingFiles/file/rozemoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergladesharvesting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mowemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b77f2406df15698e912782e75fc3cde/48750495210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/tefob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/lefuwamimovovimomapoxovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mmalappeenranta.com/tiedostot/files/55462451175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/merowopogoloxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607731ae5c4ce---19060173091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc2bdec211---buraturapegizaledadenub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe360d5659f07015cfcbafb4f5bcb8d0/42406148441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=magical+book+on+quicker+maths+2017+pdfPDF 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_off0000ba92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2A4 19348 bytes
SHA-256: afacf8d3aa16b7b47d3a054a4870ad1debeb2939793b70facaffbb4a39aaae4f
font_02_sfnt_off000104ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104CA 11880 bytes
SHA-256: 7d57f1cd14030c0671e3fdde6bc78b3f5ecac458ed00c9ca746dbfa345c9276e