Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03d66161f0cfe27c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:02:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ce98a5f5a43654151f962943558d41ba SHA-1: fd99bc414e7f8cb53beecb4d09346cfeacff7456 SHA-256: 03d66161f0cfe27ca5f1aac729931bb9f9043d1a156effa30ed6d1a27275f8ba
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure itself is also indicative of malicious activity, with heuristics flagging external URI usage and compromised CMS upload links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021051709502740.pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/75166970170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb88875295dc7e50d72320f959eaf7da/bosumufudilebute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsafar.ir/basefile/tsafarir/files/29895998783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.village-gaulois.org/gestion/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuwisuwanubujejivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/febfcf2216131fee6d1843cb5430d264/faleboseniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongkhamducphuc.net/images/files/55609687136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sankohomestay.com/userfiles/files/61876796773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rougeindigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buxovuzidimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/kexugepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuachuyennghiep.com/uploads/files/64490345868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ec2e1ec39---67801469024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velocimapper.com//webfiles/file/68580226347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/mirulisojebado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/jejefinazugeler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/31527331075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/feposalonogusikonifanam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gw73patriots.com/clients/1/1e/1ed986c9d410becccfd9995a8318e329/File/rexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limuzine.md/userfiles/file/3688740009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f816ab106100e0f8ebc38bcef759ef15/lorebodalukozufumojomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4bbf35560142877c72279f17c9e825d/76549590926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec563bc247a8fd1a67ea5fd1c4c9ad46/37012885605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertribo.sk/files/wupizaxinojixasipaxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/xepefukajelulikenosovo.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_off0000de2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE2F 17780 bytes
SHA-256: 26d85b9db04ef0b974e6af0381f57745dfb1fe1a973cd56b07db8f94f01cd41e
font_01_sfnt_off00010c09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C09 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 20b087c03989418c84b41f8bbb8729a261f6bfccbcfd30cdc8b6db0ce494c153
font_02_sfnt_off00012473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12473 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1