Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03d585d3b153ed19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-08-10 07:43:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 3390d6b2f8786c7ce5077fd07f8bd036 SHA-1: b3a55b90c66aa4626332c21301518fe03d2ab70b SHA-256: 03d585d3b153ed192c2b664a95adb4e40d99a7afddd66f2599847d3180f28185
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious PDFs is a high-priority indicator.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a7a7dd7cc---suvigewaguf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wo-kop.pl/userfiles/file/famezefeniworotatave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d0d75d4f834f5cf5490a6d6faf7de47/xakidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46322853386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69b1e742ca73166d61f2052a22f48a8d/19808162891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078868c905e8---73964650907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terminsk.by/pics/files/71821520526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/30940578944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-weekend.com/clients/9/94/945a7f92a07ecc721aac768ad340748a/File/84992435890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacongtrinh.vn/upload/files/88107454976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://info56.ru/userfiles/file/37934595206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dchs80.com/clients/c/cb/cbc185099defa3274d3d4f74835fd64f/File/rogaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e311d26a1fc---93220858452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/gulipared.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longtra.vn/userfiles/file/lexusixosipojugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/41405630862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/11145243122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76201575737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/mujapoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shield-in.com/userfiles/files/69049769307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0162a39c59---valebategutitufasifan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b4142d23722d4c79a13e51624a0b72f/sobuverevizimivivup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fc14e3766238017e7d4832bb4628aad/43423508975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hrnhhuf4sclmrhknpmag6cmqrq/mevomewojidufakaliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=creo+parametric+5.0+tutorial+book+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000e919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE919 11384 bytes
SHA-256: ba9f622a74728e7f533c5e31cedb4ef50ab9420055c3e2904dcd65d211c06662
font_01_sfnt_off000103c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C8 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 8b347826554671e5b349b1ec875b6d446e60ca9b3fcc23b7062ad584ba97daea
font_02_sfnt_off00013108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13108 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1