Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03c6cb325306dcb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:02:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 677e6e43314a4bb4434e378bc1a62da7 SHA-1: 62968a5c76054c7528eba0d052ed788cca5563bd SHA-256: 03c6cb325306dcb763df7d780b107cada928e082f2394c35a366530c3f6c0523
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=question+bank+for+class+10+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/tezizebugovogukaguwixeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/77572844397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/62438984274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6026f18303955df129aa5b93fca9a98/33283229188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alteredcompta.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26114666285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58d6db5538---287569085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biographiewerkstatt-singer.de/userfiles/file/85219540040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajnbt.com/images/upload/File/gakoruvadikebefuxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210705073747147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78d3089960589358f7a5b72027876a70/4839062370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2du0k4qvqk4lb0dav5rpdj6kc5/naveno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0eruokn8n3um31ikj6k8fp7a0/20691187017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9072276763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609abbfbb1c0a---61149908334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f687dc369b2af67dd5b0653d11eb7c46/74871394185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa7d47c3a8c---sakebolob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naoshima-tours.com/images/blog/file/sekosenaxajosuvugapigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812a8c77f21---liwivodonapuzepowot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8e1ql5jgtu4anek2u8bl7v6ij/69816800106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armenia4d.com/contents/files/83391244044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/puxirolav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/fumageda.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_off0000dde5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE5 19524 bytes
SHA-256: 43b029f2f42898b5a7fb052fb3b205e5df0f9e106f8b3dff9dec75a340de6643
font_01_sfnt_off00011149.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11149 11264 bytes
SHA-256: b2e9fde0154f4189610482eafd26af549d08480775872b15062035fa5a6f2ad5
font_02_sfnt_off00012bd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1