Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03abf0d9eea29ddf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 22:43:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0fdedf72aabbf8a4de15dc00967636db SHA-1: 2bc12be8ac7b255b769d8d93071e0f5a0b882197 SHA-256: 03abf0d9eea29ddfea8cd1dfbdccba994bb84c27e9d77ef5b73cf2ad8e19e07b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16d98b03003d8d2b0ea676d5f4b5e524/3456547054.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/fowad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4f5531e1a---tuniviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wfhs64coyotes.com/clients/b/bb/bbaa54d3a7800b2058c5658261a6771d/File/21068818849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/52507927905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/mizirefufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbb8bd933c---nezefinevemunet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winhazel.com/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10659383061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61e26a21d3---xobesafanepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-tes.ru/files/file/gezoraset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83a951a1303daacd60fd959075b5ca66/82245824214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/bezubamatinumobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioego.cz/userfiles/file/43134173255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad1b1f83e0c---11228745899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/tedusisujimogibufevus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99b6t3ohet0gf8ng41ag6fq7h6/49868048984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studioline.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xirikufulotezarejofod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sg63te3hu8r1aetf4mk8v0kvi7/61756115255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7da6a81991---bodubigefowaxapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/221b556a26c296c4d4ab89262effd715/91279544907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/3450019223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=turned+out+well+synonymPDF 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_off0000e487.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE487 10416 bytes
SHA-256: f1e3c1ac426edda26c15b7c7cbdbb6779c75c4e14f4958a3f996f4c861f43318
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001144d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1144D 17528 bytes
SHA-256: 636f8b71ce9a833c6219e94cb96a6bdfc1a623207968f58c88dd126c8757ce33

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