Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03e48d536b139d77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.8 KB Created: 2021-07-19 02:53:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e9b617d06d6eb7c6cb49c97fa1c2c5f1 SHA-1: 4c13cdc47cf776225cf5b1ac568fcc734ba14c57 SHA-256: 03e48d536b139d770e26171cd523af6de68baf40acb10ecc2f3e8de3db3e798f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad553a2c617---kuxuxemu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents//files/bojigatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20e02c2bfabb466b263800b3ecda923b/bilede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/51718175115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/xujuxagisupowuluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3828d6df639b3183d0848d50078eba6f/bumibukafajexoreg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/liwamifabejovijizopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/7327379602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/59141113108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac9420ac0a8231eea9cdab7ac53550a9/82990194973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ce9a18061---kuwutekajugibajesofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7d1355fb3---12435979807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbmdhtfd9vvn6kcn40m550srpk/91511924634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs1966reunion.com/clients/1/1c/1ca8f1639ee69cd7806809ed3bcda9bb/File/nulekotabewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0263c10937---vukoviwugabajekurinufobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/32933153679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/48720260309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca5e3d57e8---pazis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fly.no1-yes.com/userfiles/file/15285581206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b956a71e4d1d67a02c7850417f1b956/tevufadepusojuteko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/tamizafogozuzuwowamipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892ca88a485---57942574724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c23f1f2c677---65525966448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4476fc47b5---moxipupakobadipujezizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c85a8c14f4---bamegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=trichinosis+is+caused+byPDF 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_off000159dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000171f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x171F4 10640 bytes
SHA-256: aaad878566797d0510fb06168b6f6d34df4abdb5abc7733d6cf2f01dcb2cc0d5
font_02_sfnt_off00018a3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18A3B 18500 bytes
SHA-256: 9af29d2b1874c337c334a9ec316eefb759a09d11497b888420cd96aa18f21f3a