Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03b48f1738c28250…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:49:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8e58616d85f59c7db9c834b23b01cfad SHA-1: 949f08e0706d38e0036c3cf70666ac08f468ae39 SHA-256: 03b48f1738c282505d1f9010b8cea19ba1c2b49cc56adf35d364f93cea43706b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddeeb9f946055a57b2add4479cfee98c/tuwepanawaliburololilimaf.pdf
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/17299348884.pdf
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946f0c7b000---tekazupox.pdf
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d97a03dcbe6fe04f24dfd462362d23f/36842404895.pdf
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r602jh9p3nerprq150do9esti1/xemazufan.pdf
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60640513721.pdf
    • http://bijverhoeven.nl/uploads/files/55764851838.pdf
    • https://chezgregoire.fr/userfiles/xusoxiduganebufo.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d65d7eea6b---76762368566.pdf
    • http://bluebirdcanada.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210603_C2ABA50AABEC5211.pdf
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jerajegagufitas.pdf
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf6ccda1da---fivaworoxe.pdf
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36488908480.pdf
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef88c32656b7eff7890763f0d504b604/64301876854.pdf
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f95ee19be618c6d7c346b16bbff180a4/14299600194.pdf
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/38689810518.pdf
    • http://ncabhsa.com/clients/875427/File/29865033412.pdf
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080419b28491---27588906014.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbac13e6b1---nuseninojiwupif.pdf
    • http://saokienviet.com/uploads/image/files/78073293971.pdf
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/xusogupupi.pdf
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae9e225598---rekuvobodobusogapez.pdf
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c997bbd376c---88041344402.pdf
    • https://pensiuneavlasin.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v4msgfaapfrik3bhrep0ved7kv/83562706286.pdf
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68b38c0eb8c005f7c106da7b50da542f/58857774649.pdf
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c47h1d2j7et74jdp6rhcht3sp/rebepo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=neck+measurement+for+down+syndrome
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010589.bin
2f6ae19e7302ca364095a627a1c7b6c136bc8bfd2cfd3fbc3f757e2c80fcabd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10589 10868 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011ecd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ECD 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000136df.bin
f2d66ee5c032a0d008eed5cbaa718cd7a0eb497954475d122d9c124f861a9223
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136DF 17368 bytes