Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03ed21e302e5c6f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.5 KB Created: 2021-06-09 18:42:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6d4ff4cc96f96f5a88f1cc1672b7d4a4 SHA-1: 3d44367b5f51a5e14ae2801447a0c973abb6393b SHA-256: 03ed21e302e5c6f27423ccdf09a5d09a0efee8ea42fe8cb9681f60f30d59d391
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to harmful sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8742

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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=sun+bangla+in+nandini+serial PDF link annotation
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/14991819825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carriewoodfamily.com/clients/5/5b/5b9f2fb360c4065436fb7fe1267c3612/File/gugeriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b83cd8c098e---85241438220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f28b4b041e7dabf79c438fbc8e13ee87/jezizuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd8677a090---41732220733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/525b4eb66d5e3c95fc1d76f1891c6f92/telej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4de3fd3aca27385536a6ea27f2a84018/8718182875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rkr95av9utjp9rv9o7cfgkarrg/dipupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee05a07734e97db8a50f7dd6efbddc3f/47234234023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c94c9a52c9a1e0406d1dab5d2ed0e0e/xabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e814c63fd---80979108030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rg9irggihmp7o3kvstpoa8lkeq/50248259781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llsindia.in/FCKeditor/file/guwasopevanususuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66e3933eb1305fb1d81f2a5482e9ac64/1156238060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f8790e2a22dc480a71140a581ec6783/44497738437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e8b2e2cb2---mitego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/digixegekove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ca30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA30 5236 bytes
SHA-256: ffc8fce5a16708c4c286af5d71a692e601694b056e74a45c160101aced5bf7c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBFE 6856 bytes
SHA-256: 2702cdb32fb8b3cabd92e65d8fd13b96aba19351b7500ab18aa8b32dc13cfef4