Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1603d042f74ca8cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:18:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1c2a7031bd41f9ad2a4cf4d26ed35136 SHA-1: 39009bd710c5747a1b014d49092c1ea44018140c SHA-256: 1603d042f74ca8cc9623445392ba7cab2150bbfba70eefb0abe45862e6343b3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://shian-jin.com/UserFiles/files/53697215735.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fb4a92f2cae22d6462c17eb3d02fef4/19333015739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediaworld.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mipiwosudorariguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe625def61bebca01ab43ffff701e4c9/51238046884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1627617718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matratva.in/userfiles/file/49634082293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowsontw.com/shopadmin/upload/files/26752300851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/84402290681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/518c7ef9a2abae0984a4a6da8c3e1575/vizolugutugogesopujata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee496c30e5de7c543fd65b13a9df6fa1/37210339917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3fc6t1q8k3639vhdvhn1disi3/71274972214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ljlconst.com/admin/images/file/bavigufobunodelugopavon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macap.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/52313834598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105170429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848ee6a64e5---10326445185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd405666c0a---puvafejuxavufimogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/4348931048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/93912597253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/jufisige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a521880ab12---xilifosemafupewor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/20925244515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721c9184a03---59755135968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/vukufapevajefaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mi9k19uj3mj25jfqe50cas53n/16621850422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35736a9bcf389229759d1337fc15a7d4/dekejigewirozafewawor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdjbdvreubc5vijma975grf0tp/jateziguxorewigekotipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/24800197407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+delta+mean+in+optionsPDF 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_off0000d07b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD07B 18100 bytes
SHA-256: 03d4541b310488d3c0a30c7c441868412a69cecbd9e458e93f80c3a1c047a5c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE84 10548 bytes
SHA-256: d113b7ffffbc6b6a787c47dd19c94a29a0378108fc27e03f7b0970fd298ddbd8
font_02_sfnt_off0001165d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1165D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1