Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03c049c9011c5ed1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-07-22 13:18:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e45617a83e8b07561734020265bd2653 SHA-1: e0d911f469be364a67e772fa9a7ed13534ba4399 SHA-256: 03c049c9011c5ed1ed8d290c8e1fba547a7de9494cd12018cac6867cedd81eeb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://magyaringatlanadatbazis.hu/dev/_user/file/jarutoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://glotecgh.com/upload/editor/file/79355466807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0504e98ffd38614a200ecf29fe750c63/7452033290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085edaf34aa1---11410683996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walthamclassof1985.com/clients/5/52/52060312c10aa816a718e90a19a6a7a1/File/fejelulinokabuvipixojife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9dcd328a02---76562088286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/irn3bmt6b4jtnj8qk3gpetp4mo/61497739994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abde119d10b---wuridobinowoxulepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608844329fd59---87888672548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608140f8bee9e---lituwapalosanofonijurevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grubstreet.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49243043797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a2ef792fb18b8f3207971c00bcfbfd7/6915243437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepankarbasu.com/FCKeditor/file/zukulakepuzazedewilopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avantagesapp.com/uploads/files/vijuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f7b814e511---nimajusufolomewuvafud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e48f6182f---33118343495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/witesatigidup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079099b6dd5a---sobuparinepimofixoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802cba552d5---kazeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e70ccfc6f---lipulutuzofirulorot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82549821093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c907a51e98---2394073371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=lineage+2+private+serversPDF link annotation
    • http://mustang.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80638942412.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_off0000d675.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD675 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE8C 10404 bytes
SHA-256: cdbd5d92c1056f202e175b2be828ae6748708ef804456b7c901408925a3ebbd7
font_02_sfnt_off00010646.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10646 16808 bytes
SHA-256: a9d0de7192cf4d71d3808651d9f73b2594e505f9f512cd91a9cc74de63a3ebe7