Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03e5b8d087d708b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-06-13 12:41:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 26642f9755cc5fba0edbdea5975d8f91 SHA-1: d4cbb39e38c516266de77f83e23413936d27d1dc SHA-256: 03e5b8d087d708b0ad9b65fdde17955de8efee725b2a1d5da5df2468f4348398
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document designed to lure users to compromised external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=geologic+time+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da6715e768---vivivevoguda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d85a8abb1---tizujudofuxamivuzunuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84e522f6e360fff3302bbad8027d8c07/38268628195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mqgv7idbhtsfq2n8bh6pps8vp3/337307658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad66d74063---53857853989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094aa10774fb---44424421244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076161baa04c---tutidibox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720273c0274---47353225671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/soxefexok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2rdt6msrg32k6unpdi9nnkts2/geloxugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nucamsa.es/userfiles/files/78227458884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eiu48gb37dv1861lofvghh9ipf/mupufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b0c8ced1c---69086938230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4b8c4bf9b---birege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/tebonuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc208a18d94520529c2c04371f82e30d/xukuratovelimit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/diworidatukosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cdfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDFB 5188 bytes
SHA-256: c847abfc01b5976de5c9f4cda3209b8f893db1e3c77cbe8bfa11c936f8ffbf2e
font_01_sfnt_off0000df95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF95 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 545f0b657b9dc86fb513a72a9919bd88eebfae59509c0762c9dc9940e2069b0d