Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03984a54351bb5a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 15:08:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 694110ee9c04bb049a5e9803ba69f7ec SHA-1: 7e4f28de613a4b3057f3a2eb161aef0d3905195c SHA-256: 03984a54351bb5a2471fd386fd445d9b52669a541b419933c8f72ceab494160c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous URLs, including those with 'utm_term' parameters, suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+reels PDF link annotation
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409c075b67e---6941703233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simpangkanan.com/contents/files/57654353302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafitym.kz/files/file/fipokujositibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/61371735785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dbe3183e9e---43663955664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210904211722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/kimivuwozixuvurevarafatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/xoxumulibumikukevoluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkeweblongan.com/upload/files/46889549860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/nobineritawalarebusemosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteurluc.com/userfiles/file/nenatemuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/narobemosuzenokamar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/231986d35aa1367e3c5b472fa09796d3/48277733828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/jivabumufugalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martan.es/cenavarra_userfiles/files/36806491232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161393cf6100c7---17151431813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/vusivozozet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zeruvafufexonir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolshunoff.ru/images/wysiwyg/file/pidofamapak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prodomasa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28759758409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artattack-concerts.de/files/file/sigapujexidevapamatapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revive.fashion/upload/files/43448757974.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_off0000e206.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE206 17264 bytes
SHA-256: f41ca4966aa7ddf0262b4d3f0f56616a3c356738456e37c4ed823cfe0228513f
font_01_sfnt_off00010ef5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF5 10224 bytes
SHA-256: b0876afd1b5829748017c74293a2e862d93c5b76b2e92c5ff3976c828c4d19f3
font_02_sfnt_off00012612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12612 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1