Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03ddceef7ae18922…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-22 03:45:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ae902780eec055d401ab291aed98f3ca SHA-1: 9fb354f82b9d203c84942675e747ea2f325412c4 SHA-256: 03ddceef7ae189224bafa3a3379229a5ae0f7864b2992ca0e0d49c86af450f2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://gmt-tw.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/vejomebutijirabozazexe.pdf
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f30d87634d332ad6b91aef3800ca83b/xiwiniwufagedeki.pdf
    • http://bualuang101.com/backoffice/upload/files/26653857253.pdf
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0041915e7---38297269862.pdf
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d28faf10e4---3886256306.pdf
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zibejujo.pdf
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/23894089630.pdf
    • http://hiddenroots.org/clients/19739/File/podexudal.pdf
    • http://xn--zb0bw3kv4s8mn.com/upload/fckeditor/file/93125647243.pdf
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/28555904675.pdf
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g90e0halep02c8s4nagr2rjlu5/56881032374.pdf
    • http://antonioruizabogados.es/userfiles/file/71714469267.pdf
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758273b5792---69490688047.pdf
    • http://www.houstonorientalrug.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zojivivewovimufud.pdf
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4a04fdcd96---wupisuvigo.pdf
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210611041725.pdf
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e37b7ef6f9---80229393619.pdf
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2f17f29df1---1195534030.pdf
    • https://netpage.info/userfiles/file/44746675460.pdf
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210508213612.pdf
    • https://ntiverification.com/userfiles/file/fuwekevanovanilo.pdf
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7d88d373df70c329e303d7ba35ec7a0/59642010155.pdf
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c3d6acb17---71378342157.pdf
    • http://bephoangdung.vn/uploads/ckfinder/files/97869111676.pdf
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bc3797cbf22757ad55196608dbb162d/sewuseluxodizu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=trained+wheaten+terrier+for+sale
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7d1.bin
1ca4c484cf2e1d07cd10d79d1f89e0cf4a79af30d1066e5cab7f03edc85be73b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D1 16764 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011375.bin
1f3e5ac02a4d2471e9378f2ba92d510b42e390f5d61a0b53041fc75188d5e170
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11375 10500 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b56.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B56 16792 bytes