Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03d2814c11805d43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:44:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f581bd5df4f85f13243a617b1eed0c30 SHA-1: 2c0364d0dc7ec879dc896ac1a749afaa75487a71 SHA-256: 03d2814c11805d43064238d5a681e5616823ad17fa968697c3ef6ce869bfa3fb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics, suggests the document is capable of executing malicious code. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba8c280b720ab81a3e7ff1ed3f16dd8e/wivujamorejofefiwumezor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3a64224f4f---42218047182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8b81b008d---51109650496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingpiazza.eu/userfiles/files/96418973871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bb749c28d---7068599122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868eaf4271b---38997502460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2emmrf29shm9qjhoqont4keo3j/81716603947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f1d1e7f77---27494944899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-massimo.com/js/upload/files/zomokekadajefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/wutalor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6fff9e1cb---waxaxugawopob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d950e2e8fe---funoduti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085744154292---gevijufodetolodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/56873359587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f6b18a4345919ae76e4547119192516/37155938738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917657cad45---33538265783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db73953950fa2e70adacefbba3aa912b/91780312470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/289660696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/548f343ffa8a2278c840e228dcd31575/27077214237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608124f1556fc---sewegusazewokijopepug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/gazirasositilisepive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f9b0917b9a9b7dafac9a1e3f3883564/24467826075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/970a310d0ed00a977a982f16ca75789d/pajunopozerijuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1b520aa97---finuwojew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/93639465080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2n02e68iajsll61mq39budbo2/geketibatavivixikak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northstarbaptisttyler.com/clients/a/a4/a4b4c2e389351fb2dee96c3f727c6a57/File/205671630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=13+reasons+why+phrasesPDF 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_off0000ebd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD4 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 88f84de9571827dbcac09828e88d0730b9ef3a854ecc9d3404f5a7a3cc8d0f28
font_01_sfnt_off00010387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10387 18012 bytes
SHA-256: 6e6a9b5fc6ad1cd3bda6e75f8808b5e5ae05c25c3d2f966ff8c4c9821215edf5
font_02_sfnt_off000132ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1