Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 603f48ef2f2f91ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:42:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5c71b9cab5bc249028bcf75146eafa0e SHA-1: 348911c225ae254c2fea06ca83f210f0b260dba5 SHA-256: 603f48ef2f2f91ffa53781a237a06176a0f0fa566d25ffe4fab1e4b42daf6705
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards an attempt to exploit user interaction via embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.natursany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54567806418.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f6d2dbc73---liwodutepenokape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608472e755e12---memotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a13d5eab745---wezafinokevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/912f75d4470ce605d754e7240597e83e/48798664383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qkon.ca/images/file/37925647953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somivoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc38d387da7---23197215670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firengo.com/userfiles/files/betaminewadixasado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestpokeya.com/uploads/files/soxuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client//imagesfile/fijeluva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/files/bubotenexizetagalujel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villamishkan.com/310renonew/front/images/files/20607868137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/peremoxazodibabuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettorobertafasola.eu/userfiles/files/wofesaliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebonit.light.bg/includes/libs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75331557906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jgb6bf2atlktl94n4m4bredb99/torizisipatele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/92663315194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7d517537bce39a69b13c721bc152362/70501973407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvienlaptop.biz/userfiles/file/rolilunosufibubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willbramephotography.com/naxesutoralimoxedozujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa84c88ed4207f86e2f018014d40d30b/97381405643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=graphical+representation+of+informationPDF link annotation
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/31016846502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e4bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4BF 17428 bytes
SHA-256: 2bf515056e05ae5726e85cb3cdaef98abdeb89a8c96a64eba57c246039fc0513
font_01_sfnt_off00011205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11205 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A1C 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 0cc5493b70dabd13f6551d31067f45d0cefd0380599bbf2f70f555a42acf4f3b

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