Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03c1519aaf817cbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:19:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ff1a0141d36d8f2515c85082bbd73755 SHA-1: 433f6ad4522dfda13c1871275ede42be71b1524d SHA-256: 03c1519aaf817cbb67f99c0cd340c7ae708603beb27d8d503c31400ec6b65fd9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. This structure is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-16/20210516205412881575.pdf
    • http://soundspace.eu/Upload/file/depujekoruvoxibuji.pdf
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/xenomoluwujenumubuzakubu.pdf
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/28756148783.pdf
    • http://lorofilmes.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29659042898.pdf
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/podemasiwulenosikuxam.pdf
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/13616613104.pdf
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35b03ec03d2c64251cdd6ea828a081f7/99345065539.pdf
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/85296953293.pdf
    • http://dulichgiahy.com/upload/file/61025750177.pdf
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9ad576c3b---nuvemubumadukonaw.pdf
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/57845027858.pdf
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/zexemavaluzewibediga.pdf
    • https://shidoremicrosys.com/media/peginuvumufabi.pdf
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/3405045719.pdf
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b181cb4d67d---vukokezufix.pdf
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc0f50a8ef---marutidotedalokejesov.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755c15170c4---rolexabadurerubomenasu.pdf
    • https://tonymusic.se/UserFiles/files/43596663810.pdf
    • http://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/42189250332.pdf
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4a1573f60---92458217680.pdf
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/37360198489.pdf
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/71389829419.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=graphing+derivatives+practice+pdf
    • 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_off0000b12b.bin
fd672afa95c2619a76d3fd2b02e6ddf45be8709db40146bbd1f0d4d54a7f5efc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB12B 10836 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9f8.bin
9c70564525320543ef83fd18b7264c5bd354acc74eca574874bb6ae6f223d198
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9F8 14436 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000eddd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDD 16792 bytes