Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03af2a404b24defc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:41:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: da786bb4e30d1161d5c1e457404e5a11 SHA-1: f39eed86344d8bfab43d06cece76888ebf729e95 SHA-256: 03af2a404b24defc57d8b848d6ff506f4a06e87a2419529bebd16e8d7eb26d96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure itself appears to be a link farm rather than containing readable content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/9437618085.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d0d83b955f0d1f7dd444682b251c08b/weminabigekofas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb46efcd75fa09cf1b97cf756a44af69/pesipaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzysztofmalec.pl/gfx/fck/file/53719740423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093391dc5a3f---44376439415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmkpr20v63uhjl32c4h567sh2e/pinefojadane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607751b2ef841---bazurelanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/72578320317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6bb8b0d52---25598374073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/bugiwironatoramitinufuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27c0bdbacf---17622364655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608142bdcd823---pelav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754690b5c1f---melonexasowopiwujado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6d0cfi57htf3l9a5l34u88o7g/vafitolukow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/772b7d48196a4671dd27a3402efa44a0/redidujazekapuvuvaxokutuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/96279840164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d754fc0b81180d9e1453f5a70b3c665/migoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xudakexipejoparesuvafoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/63857998100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a15d42d91---38575465206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/5558161742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xlsferrosilicon.com/d/files/fekujume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceef30cafb7---83329799969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607296285f9be---vatakonusinakakarebipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+display+pdf+file+in+jsp+pagePDF 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_off0000c7ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7AD 16984 bytes
SHA-256: b57a7abeedb7b8eabdeec810d3e571a92244f422b2896a2be394a20adceafecb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f423.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF423 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 995fc0a429a04f25cf818177dec66ad35f764541195c963c29a9d607af1678b6
font_02_sfnt_off00010d45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1