Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 503c9766584fb9c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-08-22 07:57:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 316d459ad54b5a981d45781911fed7c6 SHA-1: ed32fb0ae38443bf9de31f693c26aaf9fd50f88d SHA-256: 503c9766584fb9c5ec9b0289a5b288928c4801fbb17e792cdd8a4596860bc09f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9s4ef2afo370n9i8ocp5c81667/nawegefexotone.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eska-lift.ru/userfiles/file/vazinuxirotarogefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swhwsolution.it/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/xofuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/66348168910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.profiemg.cz/upload/ck/files/5164462305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsnmmaterials.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/pazujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1624717491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krossi.ru/images/content/files/22311222323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2088ef185bee9590f5cf462e26989b94/lemavalekixazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/6451289583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d9fce4c99975e73c671d03ae75f3361/wifudoravuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161003cdbb2d37---53311274990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210818_112506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukaiart.com/userfiles/files/karodomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a5e13f360---xanaveremexiputaned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southfieldhigh1973.com/clients/2/27/27a5067865c8334ad4a5a1fd7642c928/File/72189721532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fopebebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vieclamketoan365.com/upload/files/41215631372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bepxuyenviet.com/upload/files/janav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/31775188972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b15f27a39d4---53199632071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consade.com/userfiles/file/dujadutaxemurugivikov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/36267224164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/pafuvitiguzukedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/xiwarezosalijidode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=maleik+anhidrit+ile+furandPDF 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_off0000c6f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6F9 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 8692eb4b544b96c0167b3ccac6ac8b77daa1a040fd75d29aee3085fa232c638d
font_01_sfnt_off0000de2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f640.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF640 17656 bytes
SHA-256: aa037f922c039861c1a86a7edea7bd864f72745bd80c535bc13f62ef5ac5c0ff