Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 103fcb0354019d3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:16:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4ed99aa5eda7e4f988de80ea1d9140fc SHA-1: 0bbf140bd1c0556e0340fc74e3c0d237b51df8cf SHA-256: 103fcb0354019d3f286690c78c4d459e9954df4e12651c004288a50d72649bbb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as an image-only document designed as a lure, containing a clickable action that directs to external URLs. Several heuristics indicate the document is part of a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/23080865878.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-jlclgg6a3e.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/16609115168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/def0dd77b230105910de5b870d4d8bde/15442597946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f40c17e4a5---nafotisudifirotifobiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7911b2dffc---98150055008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16250302538535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104e37de72f3---gusifekuvipeweware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607768d656db8---pibarudaxikefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/sejepeguriwujera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testsitehq.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/22082589229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb48b4661f05ba41b908df53eb056847/18122787718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungtdc.com/upload/files/rogapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/xenogegukinedig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11646005949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210817_074223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/pufopedebogaxetibosol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formel1vermietung.de/userfiles/file/gubokokasegujekukimigux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowenlawmt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/87170901593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/44604765539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/vubafazudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/22182975066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f33f156bd2c0a858de7bd8a5c808569/14880718096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tl5p5bc5vrj3cqaecbf5ginttm/64759294033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713e22ae472---jenatorut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=objective+ket+teacher%27s+book+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000b3e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3E5 14172 bytes
SHA-256: f04d2192a25367bae54ea1173222da3b998135e43ff3610d9565b3bcb0f6ad67
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF04 11288 bytes
SHA-256: bcd748da0cd2151bc59f052e4051a288143d236a499f142e07286211770dc8f0