Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03c4b7ee2b2a0b8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:02:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4da3097ad2aed22065825c2d1914417e SHA-1: f786c0304a4972607063cd9be275a2ea2a1e318a SHA-256: 03c4b7ee2b2a0b8fd0e238746e2366043537ff35076c53b15284e302c0b52f7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the link farm heuristic and URL analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th465j4ja9c13urv3vasua1h4a/garogajigapoxudosini.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://griswoldremgmt.com/uploads/files/5180099256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088924427296---gowubodeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/5392413229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9461e2348f7e5842065aaebdccf07b1a/99151342901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021082111554637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/758f48706d9daf0cece9c363cbfc05ca/92250695825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yukkumpulgroup2.com/contents/files/mosonuditu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jeveru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abde3a7922---megodamagezaxifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pc03kmi764k9uoeejq5foaf5k3/nigajomiguzisaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/24856697621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6d429b4fc---kefuseluxalepezekigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kp-bs.ru/upload/files/3737502536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/gafexasuwolivapesir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/5773744505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xycrusher.com/d/files/359533936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/zuxodekupawizuvotuvufowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/089fc7556c9a020a9c3c1d86704df597/xagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/tipuroxiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4o6ird9ph9dmiv4t2uua8rl2a5/nefiwizesuravobozozewor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burfel.ru/upfiles/files/notifit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecrayfamily.com/clients/36408/File/vuvadekobagujizamevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drakbera.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36110017299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe371488748---batiwadorobukazuzugapuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/bavijufamad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=critter+and+creaturePDF 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_off0000dc5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC5C 18860 bytes
SHA-256: f46c0c4006f8dc4cfaafeb102be9067115c3a832c767e218ffa3d08aed54bad1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3C 10160 bytes
SHA-256: f19df8817382d156e5077a29a4976799f7b8c4ebdb766fa0fc226aebdfb92fab
font_02_sfnt_off00012417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12417 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1