Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03fc5aff7088b72d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:07:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: acc13a01031d4dcb269f294aa9ca0408 SHA-1: 45db82c86eb260b6ac2b98991a8194354f650b03 SHA-256: 03fc5aff7088b72db55b21a234265fb63e6f2431b2dc214dabcddb707911c3fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://icbacademy.com/upload/files/terivirarakero.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/xigovuxevuvuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derma-dts.de/files/file/jusuzeruvisewos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assessmentinsight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16968103891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p8vlrka6n8kratmlpimltsk5f2/10102021343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/bizuzalirijabixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f4e6039e0---95871797019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/89074939183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b3724b7871c29b30127177dc9bacfd1/xuvuvewuvevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitacanes.com/uploads/files/17173826914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608504852df9f---45782818872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8707f51c80---70511333224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7c290e608---rorekidusumodapaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcc032be1bbc236862c9f5f0684a930b/vusulokorirekajawedamax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e04793e40d---35486493288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hb7770qo0hkam6nvkj5v9h489a/49773555468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a210c318694---77783773886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/karubewunobolomazexezaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5795672ec3---87832999205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5acb97484f---sulofejibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdka5q2t95d97386ju2hm7fnln/80365654062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c010b87c9b54bfdcca238897f3d063f/44865657888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07d28ac42b7f9f67c7e75e611df0cda1/88641742229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9okj2ne345pr81rrpkis06bki/51784395402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudraconsultancy.com/uploads/files/vuzibazukedowikenefodasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc15d7f2272---72185362264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=ginisang+upo+with+tunaPDF 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_off0000e9f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F3 18324 bytes
SHA-256: 24b96292a75f2ff5d928856f09b56345f32b1b7bcbe554937c40f86c96b55d1f
font_01_sfnt_off000119f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001320b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1320B 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 70d5a983fd1f4fa1194abc813e8c02399dde01eb11f03a6ed3cb5e5d84fcd681