Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03ecd86b99de6bba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:58:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d4e21026803c6651fa666007ca03d84f SHA-1: 7046121386d7f7770ca818b19e6351f24bfb1e72 SHA-256: 03ecd86b99de6bba67284c40a97de343a8e631de5ca512039f12a7bdd1b2f56a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a lure for phishing or to distribute further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests this document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nicole+kidman+before+after+plastic+surgery PDF link annotation
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2318e8dc31ad945162a01d0698308e3d/mawibamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/9604921355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f7b2d11f2d9b72ed18ca172ac8e3800/56475998432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/65067106685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6d3baa904dd3f8a0959a84c5327eddb/mitegivif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1859ac5770e0f4cd7428c2ab93b2750f/57661314134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608058263e954---sopidozozalepav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2prnelfh5t8ngdpbk2gvf1pcf6/levimemosafuvikiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lohs69.com/clients/82366/File/80274724783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e7f909125---67156484095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/989956a36205fa14a0c8eb21dd8df876/febivutotuzepememib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d95bdd76d3d195de5963ac8a77af842b/46118974348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6592c0b5b7---fogotijufuxudegusibitaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5c8031cdef2ad7a64e04531078bb2d2/kewiraguzexelatijige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movementlab.dk/userfiles/file/rezufamolelapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sg14jnvda88fglosti02hc5rv3/satigelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3e04fdc884ffa14fca472d8a89a2472/dofusikofefexopubebonebes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c4a6a411d75c7067433d10493f8482e/82788320915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.nu/upload/91519519960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c94771d345---busiziwiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b59c703a9cd88e82b719964330669e0f/75403262020.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_off0000f5e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E3 17348 bytes
SHA-256: 8c2ed75646458f18d008332f37f29149514d8146a059b3d92278a591ddb9785e
font_01_sfnt_off0001236b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1236B 11388 bytes
SHA-256: e77f22bd3e853acd083d4bf789c2ce578e11304787183fc913ff1c628822937b
font_02_sfnt_off00013dd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DD7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1