Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03d785f678c22d12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:26:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6893bd96a110e133594aa327bdf77e16 SHA-1: b9cd57ab5bccb094342eb18c76b99e57c30523f0 SHA-256: 03d785f678c22d125150cba3f570caf420ed5d79de9bdcca61bbae7caa19a419
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of multiple PDF-specific heuristics related to URI and link farms further supports this. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvb8ovk5engq3plt35o8b0kscm/zepemusawugorarakalalow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://strap.sk/uploads/files/pukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4e9bfd873b539e4831cf2763da2fd6a/fotuwewegatosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar.com/contents//files/54030570276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/40429640933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adreshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/2812635149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/91014070394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc31a585c90---41365566207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1544-7419.net/upload/fckeditor/file/61094210739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101eyewear.com/luutru/files/rurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cli-kh.com/uploads/files/202108150624322984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents//files/88323917084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/69847986773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/votiverem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativitagh.com/pevron/www/img/file/xebokilazilazapebukuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shinoda-usa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55217924770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pampa.be/uploads/userfiles/files/83442516910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispecom.com/cms_dispecom/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/vixaniwunuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hrj6hgnill6v9o4ilj9r8k03mh/jafufazobuvoruvodijor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12dbd1cb2f745546ff238f95118c5727/26270152126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100c1e8b46cc---53043759709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--interpeas-r6a.es/upload/files/27000872642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstroy96.ru/uploads/files/donadezukewujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=chrysler+pacifica+2018+owners+manualPDF 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_off0000d04b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD04B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e862.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE862 11480 bytes
SHA-256: e0ab1042a9881c6c7e417fc6af1aaae1c57d1de234c331dda31152bb295b8882
font_02_sfnt_off00010381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10381 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 09fd992cb07e2d07b51d03f35f695d51301c5ddf4d6d61b55a3cdddb1fb2ad29