Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d03d21cb6a6e75c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 15:53:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 445cea21b8a0f5ee9416cae74e5b2be4 SHA-1: b7fff5dab52de755b8cf92bae8f6f372983175d4 SHA-256: 0d03d21cb6a6e75c5128fe05b85a443240b59b07ee7d23dde0fd9fbde1d1d567
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on these compromised sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 5

  • 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 http://lexen.ca/userfiles/files/pemuje.pdf
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef21c8be57---vanelolalagexivujurug.pdf
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fd9fc3060748301d21cb16b2fb09a4a/18787412223.pdf
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77ec2e486626557a27b156644b22a5a4/35757272259.pdf
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/888ab89a514c8466c0d7f08e01e2c0c8/samat.pdf
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tqvlljd12qphu59n86mdqcoi25/57273560381.pdf
    • http://msmzizkov.cz/data/dokumenty/12674207105.pdf
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/guwema.pdf
    • http://pagyesa.org/userfiles/file/20210730050549.pdf
    • http://soflcops.com/clients/83267/File/83092085554.pdf
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93736220062.pdf
    • http://korytnica.net/data/files/70845899810.pdf
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/fagepopawowonizurizomodo.pdf
    • https://takipbizde.com/calisma2/files/uploads/24067597721.pdf
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/47240445349.pdf
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7c6298d7a---17893796323.pdf
    • http://win-sonic.com/kida2018/ck_imgs/files/poxasilisunamafa.pdf
    • http://chandravanshi.com/userfiles/file/33895218864.pdf
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786a9c73064---2020663598.pdf
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/56994790418.pdf
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/40718989840.pdf
    • https://ijpdua.com/contents//files/27705829526.pdf
    • http://cgmorenanews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70069513034.pdf
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c1769bd16---94109743791.pdf
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akhp7kqstv5l7q8o1ot2i1s31n/97462639419.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=distinguish+between+manual+and+computerised+accounting+system
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9f1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9F1 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f203.bin
835c007be8f132e9c79283ae7e1e4fa27ed226ecc45ea4b9a048b98da4876b4a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF203 17264 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea1.bin
c58cd7272ffffacbeed317c7225e38d8296136ab223a9fe81eface47b49d5989
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA1 11404 bytes