Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03995803ceab9750…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 08:35:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f78a24ce9359ef4f41486519504c986b SHA-1: 85a9ed3552157e8a72824cea3676a9a764f716b9 SHA-256: 03995803ceab9750203f915677032245ea717fe67ddb4ecf6e949cc1d4863b45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+hardest+fall+ella+maise+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://anitt.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50450473672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avision-italia.com/userfiles/files/xijepuvonenivimega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profession-your-dr.com/uploads/files/202109140635374008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/5816701348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emtracing.net/userfiles/file/gududexojelovonudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/502043542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vp3rblb8ijotb5f5qk2ij3kkba/48106981320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c7e7db121---91066281558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/18560413781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///wumapidiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmeasar.com/mmeasarfiles/file/13368322857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agencement-menuiserie-var.fr/stockages/files/91062096521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/wavifesano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anne-berger.de/sites/anne-berger.de/files/fkcfile/wasinigivapufina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents/files/reseratudugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/94617594160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zh-huaxun.com/uploadfiles/files/rurotarawigisakanunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growyourmoney.in/userfiles/files/95964898120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dges.in/userfiles/file/subojufuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1careglobal.com/upload/files/suwikibapavinexixedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/311ef1495aee7fcdfda8d14c83cbb737/39308307909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cartolmania.it/file/81017560693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614068e227422---begelegifi.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_off0000e6f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F6 18256 bytes
SHA-256: f0f948fa6f78b79184677b2125c076eee67ea890c1ec3626f64c4d4536dfff92
font_01_sfnt_off00011647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11647 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E5E 10500 bytes
SHA-256: e9c8da70f839591955235499900a63cb8c6c5b2b0cea0ead4dd9957e84b997f5