Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03b5c915a230a33d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:52:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a81590ed0e307c3ca4acc6055d4eabac SHA-1: 23b23f6a1d18cdeb89c4f8b16df082de59223bea SHA-256: 03b5c915a230a33d5bd7b61b2f3c34504e99760c5eca1720c7631464aecd573b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of 'transaction management system pdf' in a URL parameter further supports a phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.halpellet.hu/userfiles/files/16662649751.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xoblates.com/clients/e/e0/e08cfb93fb97b00c28394d0532709dc9/File/verumuvowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b88fab77c279c24529ddc5148ff9525/40926937375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/em2g0fvdsm424liceikq3nc1a5/99739064197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c09cc5aeda7---90362604348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/73456163113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienchidan.org/uploads/files/sezalusejos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/41301812760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123ae06ea77d---binedopumudurezonepawamos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.comperat-89.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woleruzope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f21f626a35---rizikezulafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102d877ba415---dimofojimivagiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c27613cd7f---xurumanurojizovubexavabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/82471620794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3ff5d5faa18accb70a26feb65e560c9/ditewumutaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f14ec7e8f34---37076132281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harom.ro/files/file/xesewexavapilafivab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2e93fc12da---surasuniwomumemirimur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/fofisefagogeridovimikob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cebubigsellers.com/userfiles/file/87466479930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160969cf322da9---refuredopalor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7fd096ac2d---4391054238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92b7b93215a5ac573521b7b3c282b1dc/vukafadiziwexuzujanes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/jonagugirafon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=transaction+management+system+pdfPDF 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_off0000eddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDC 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 1ac9429b084363f7699f7767f6f5b91cd70b8d2e449c1a65c18b0ebe951c1122
font_01_sfnt_off0001073f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1073F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F51 17624 bytes
SHA-256: 66fdde12091ffa35312162d741cbb257f7009c52940504d98fe45c31bc4afee5