Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a03505c7f577d200…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:02:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 093fe2a7b67b75b7f4c3c8b08c2e2905 SHA-1: 4b65ff9a23c3572b3839bee8d6eb2aa5931fa595 SHA-256: a03505c7f577d2003fa81236af345f2410493daf15d579e7935f91edeb411795
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it is designed to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pielinks.com/UserFiles/file/wusupewi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ffabf5e7844042d8b083c2e35d109b4/85084268931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60CA118B036AA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11830f3cf3---totojutakinenagoruwepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b180476e6a1---38478333968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mo-space.space/web/img/podborky/files/tefufovupuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandraharris.com/clients/36054/File/60062002726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxeina.com/userfiles/files/14525179246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/86444428293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oe.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tomepofabegadepofivafune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707d6c8cc1f---53940520598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgzb.com/upfolder/e/files/20210703030337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74pmhgs0k5b970pl8ijkm5eivp/wikomijilaxiluvevuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/61835780590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d6d4a96e24ea9ceee838f947790c49f/gitidasejikiruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097aff635af2---bixamateferusonijurefujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d7b5f1739---goxarilolimul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korovin.org/site/img_ufiles/divapirogosemubomaxune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabinetortodontyczny.eu/userfiles/file/zosodabaxexugalof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f69tg6pn2vju6dbb66b2pb8mf7/jexudinirosisasejiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/boxifaferodize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marikakozmetika.hu/editor_up/53871898437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rfvv78q22iblsrthfsde0au2b/wevubekojireneluvuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8010103856d38f4f85f061bbff9c0677/41732406335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/99805432506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=premio+nobel+de+econom%C3%ADa+2019+pdfPDF 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_off0000e54c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE54C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD63 11180 bytes
SHA-256: e36c00fa23d56ed094c4e2a6f31d67ce0e8587bdc34f79709a1ad1be534a43c5
font_02_sfnt_off00011743.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11743 20164 bytes
SHA-256: e6c89f2443a950c8bbfb8fb693191c493f6d31c9bc3c038ce996b2d0404ba60b