Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2303ce10d91d92dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:52:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3e1f7db9b87d4d47eff82ef9d88b3b3f SHA-1: 84e83e14a1b230012c289007663f2a56f2c5b9ac SHA-256: 2303ce10d91d92dcf9f75cd2729ad0a2bbac67e075dc83efce9261867d62c087
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content or download further payloads. The PDF structure itself is also noted for containing duplicate object bodies, which can sometimes be used to obscure malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/60194293882.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://champion-osk.pl/userfiles/file/dedudanebidutasowesibadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f06ecd372---kudufevegakitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/xudolelabenamewoluxamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e0ce7291a---84082543734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfa6e414064b41ac2204994c0405a472/witamikavugiresitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dqakgo9ou1qvqa8vhodd0iomj/52192442903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919ed40325f---sojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b18e1f118ab---93640011365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13ba0311ef---jukelukejilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ace31e3113d51377a20b2f50c75fb7ec/88560823729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93c79e98db3011b073d863ea24622193/wanebazuzorera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816c355e0ba---6745675429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83b2802052dcaf3e33fbf2a172612091/47605704160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3462b56e3---ginelomukifubemapeniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7b206ead7---92353895103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7kar83jsqdsg5c9nl93cvv9g20/22539848653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d860967c4a80dbcf2d8a037874ffe5d7/losaguzitelizebajemov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92vq6c2hfn31an62oasjfl8cj3/fobupotexopini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c056c14d1b8---tomenovogunosen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/sapil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=forms+of+dance+in+the+philippinesPDF 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_off0000e53a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE53A 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 0dc4d99b42d204736db18ab4932fdb9c79b22579827824b624e793e5660d5cff
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE12 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 5ce362d573d35cd5b20d4b5293c4f6660e1142a41a0ed7c3a6b8fd1028b89d69
font_02_sfnt_off000129f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1