Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03b301ce97038b32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-08-04 11:51:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d7ed87cc25c1aaeaafb0abbe285c544d SHA-1: a404e0c5bf7ddd12a04b43d244c847739aeef641 SHA-256: 03b301ce97038b32f9b2a626185bab02fbb54583f0eb45de1f579a2b96068886
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=form+15g+for+pf+withdrawal+pdf+icici+bank PDF link annotation
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e534d1934cd---6607252359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanhotel.ro/beficientconsultingFiles/file/vimusen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/kateruwobijebexuzazudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16213512244685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/164b5524a9ba3d0e9c39874903ba4ba1/konesivagusewavapapebiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4d4554948---domilefegopewijadivuler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27b660eb0d---dular.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myconnect-thailand.com/image/upload/File/fojutabijuxaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca41bc5f1f---69302477399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.net/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/69156614488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuacuonbentre.com/upload/files/47224738846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/zugonanitagupibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sanruou.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/20305566745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ne6v6bks8f1jq5pd23g3pmo7sn/bosufukomamifixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ks-klinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29010432705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/irbgbr989tl2tt909mprr63c38/bujetiworezabomor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/mezimareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822304487a0---faxaperovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurad.eu/files/file/97992196322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a445fb359f6---65329522137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/11963078497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/24383762746.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_off00010299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10299 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 17f83e2bd95be8ff6b806862e7dc505400e95c356d8ae2fb68797ff7a56fb5ba
font_01_sfnt_off00011c7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001348d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1348D 17328 bytes
SHA-256: 25031849325206503a980d5b6b0319bbb3e6ddcb490fc8574aa6c0b1a492d401