Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03c6cdcdd875bec9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-08-12 12:11:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 36071015414a4543ba861f5bb1ac2bf5 SHA-1: 20b375cc170eb0c991a725b5c06e634d24569ca8 SHA-256: 03c6cdcdd875bec90ec94541208496810a39c60ca8c2963208563ffa25fff48b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier output further support its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bloons+tower+defence+6+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/faxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da894e46fbe85dcadeed4e7f6cdbe692/vobipawagofikakonimif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/12396995364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/8353680915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e78cd9662e39b02a67f7fff22b55dfe/58801827679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e74e9ab66de7d55666853b1692bb278c/najevewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad3af9d2304---dituxivopufuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/duwilawuvagonirima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holtfamilyreunion.com/clients/5/51/517903a0238f10651a3d170edcbd2d86/File/mogeboxatowoxinudopige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec3e83fd9a2c04451d798bbf28d2cfc6/55705136480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862c50674b9---puwakobitegamoniparuturo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090567d62a87---14728509168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vq9jn4p31gtho1aunj364b9cf8/68909083193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9f84d00d9---24010295194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55db7d326cb3101c69193d8dc5e886af/69300966361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vigurazudilidil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiahpa.com/flash/files/dajafovifomexemawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2201718590---mopavonilezubokili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutandcolorparrucchieri.it/file/gesaxufisafebanofoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///tagutoxudarovofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b11c87d78dc---52817470487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralahappyjourney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zenabutokorexiduvod.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA47 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 982fd0be8889750021a3dba32095de6d3cd46bb2e45534ddaf1d64be6ddb005e
font_01_sfnt_off0001043d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1043D 1700 bytes
SHA-256: 15171638d69c9281a983de8a04f8d213e5ed86d33053034f6aa0dd130c4010d8
font_02_sfnt_off00010c50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C50 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 75c219771639d9e90bdb2f25336b28f29e10c17a575ba5dbba563973bd81365a
font_03_sfnt_off0001390f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1390F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1