Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b03c1489eca3a5a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-08-10 11:48:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8bd326ecee5b83582aa5113fe692873c SHA-1: 3054b8d4d25229cb74287abc566164a5fe6eb706 SHA-256: b03c1489eca3a5a0801f1459e68599479976b25dc813e9bacc9f3047b3125ec7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages, indicating a probable spearphishing attachment delivery vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=le%C3%A7on+sym%C3%A9trie+ce2+cm1
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qak165pcp9m1s6ak1ihuno4qb5/59279939171.pdf
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/koho0irrm7iujt369b3qt12rm1/lirufuz.pdf
    • http://sgadsahodayatarntaran.org/sahodyatarntarannew/userfiles/file/gegoxenoforekasamevelu.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087febd0b2b6---rafolegipuxeza.pdf
    • http://ourgans.org/userfiles/files/zewilopusorodebavu.pdf
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102a2016e486---27389774936.pdf
    • https://maxlinder.com/admin/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kojekirolifololugi.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hbga7tlb2a76r3bed1e8v2msk/luvotok.pdf
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/zozanezubota.pdf
    • http://sclifeguards.com/clients/16854/File/4041434438.pdf
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24a0c16f8e168a7023082b750382e11f/jejusokipojinem.pdf
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/1636122657.pdf
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608096e1831cc---tarekiju.pdf
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b99abf18e7bbbad039b63bdb1e306f2e/laxununojudopejidakugasaz.pdf
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c91e2e4e28---68463977984.pdf
    • http://familiehollander.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/livugotikatuvutisonopu.pdf
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/ledowoxibolup.pdf
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc6de555a9---23533799989.pdf
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf4fccfb8de92b215728c3c55d7f11e3/44729183167.pdf
    • http://watsonwilliamsreunion.com/clients/82103/File/79038587807.pdf
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c7cfe16f3---gonilef.pdf
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edafa39cb0f---4668932193.pdf
    • http://summithigh75.com/clients/867147/File/77499925342.pdf
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d08d4548b2---43758832163.pdf
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/63787414761.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d39e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD39E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebb0.bin
c2f060b29f3c5860daa6d5c1faa5af99b321bf8cee888273d2daa585f82358f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB0 18120 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011973.bin
d4c20643b72248b05bee07764c960c7328c936ab23b518259c6c8270da0ca4fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11973 10776 bytes