Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03b6ea14d46104ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.5 KB Created: 2021-07-18 04:27:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d4d278b93f0980b7f014509854d63761 SHA-1: 40ebff55af7d7449f73fb4d66bcbc98dc26dc17d SHA-256: 03b6ea14d46104efd6c54ac8f46729d2e022c8d25532253e1d9bf5e6f4123794
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports its role in a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bea190af0e---37490005512.pdf
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f17e994f7c7cbefbaedc1694a6c503b/notelifawozanikeroxo.pdf
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607943b361f09---wiled.pdf
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/rejaxedejef.pdf
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/dimewivumavikowovijisa.pdf
    • http://lacyfamilyunity.com/clients/2/20/203fd950dafdada58ea32e7b96f0d147/File/81663288527.pdf
    • http://hudsonohiohighschoolclassof1980.net/clients/7/7d/7d4b1ad73701457990394555a34ab01f/File/joremitixiwetuzilepivav.pdf
    • http://pietroquatriniarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/mexufu.pdf
    • http://deborahkay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16410323113.pdf
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc23dd308f---91535831478.pdf
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48c471335d---61316352767.pdf
    • https://soroptimist.be/oldsite/intranet/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/images//files/41086107661.pdf
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/1636122657.pdf
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/30738022797.pdf
    • https://www.xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/rivotumedilulenimadurukan.pdf
    • http://componentcnc.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jakuruzilejeguliv.pdf
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd202a4395---90981519225.pdf
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3a1b409e37264d3f59e47ce24d9b13f/zusagekimezu.pdf
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c42d9062d40f831aedced2323304223c/taxolipele.pdf
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3v1ofg22f8vhqe1sakb78o3dp/wepitogu.pdf
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/40087266288.pdf
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/6983226622.pdf
    • http://esipro.lu/userfiles/file/96965970567.pdf
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de778c0e4cd6d487807a1d406585e332/nopuferitupu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+conjuring+2013+subtitles
    • 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_off00014329.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14329 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015b40.bin
396552c2bfbf50b60ab82f3dd24764984ec2a6b7e6501c033c60585eb2267a20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B40 11144 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017547.bin
b326d69f2fd3be5f0222c5f119326e0955dd5dc658b7ee8f8ece84f44c273dbe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17547 18072 bytes