Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03fa62994296d6ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 14:34:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3db8e80f4274e129f3f939164ef14d68 SHA-1: 817baa47420a93cabc68c7dd27d2a68dadc84aad SHA-256: 03fa62994296d6ae73d82f7d3d93a00ff2335a251d03721f0baf82d839aa5682
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, impersonating a cloud document service to trick users into downloading a file. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm pointing to compromised upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a malicious workflow. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the execution of a secondary payload via embedded JavaScript.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://simkoongschool.com/uploads/editer/files/51969645024.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tochalco.com/uploads/files/wagulujevomitomeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/72522828958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gpaci.org.br/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81780002425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52fantasies.com/home/holly/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5499816150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de913270ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/17961697674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maskaevlawyer.ru/userfiles/file/pibiwinexetekegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/tekozufufinolunilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danangsculpture.com/uploads/image/files/25826526523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/frpsk5igb5jjbggfcnlg4fpi7n/97468942811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilenmr.com/files/files/dibozutamemaxitez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impulsa.mantareys.net/uploads/plantillas/files/nuxifutunidifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cc099586f3---fovakeriravovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phatgiaolongan.com/upload/ckupload/files/25051850566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spprp.pl/userfiles/file/rawanajosuwofagok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bkairconditioner.cloud4demo.com/uploads/files/85701791796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://probeg2000.ru/files/userfiles/files/sasopila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-sanya.com/blog_images/blog_/file/dorukipivulolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f80b011b2---pelefenijalexozudorifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digjamaica.com/app/webroot/files/zasemixosojekofeluvet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/057f240d0e91304e977d50146f3152dc/kukojeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/rezinegofonobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5096400142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://typeone.com.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20102384497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianztc.ro/files/file/luled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+backup+android+phone+and+restore+to+new+phonePDF 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_off0000e689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE689 17956 bytes
SHA-256: 63d5ae41776a335f780742f82fbeae38c3cdeb7283f476052359a93c6eb0c3aa
font_01_sfnt_off000114cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE3 10972 bytes
SHA-256: cc6e4db31321368f3d96557f918c73e489ac7855a3a539d903334bafd42d512b