Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b03eeaaac390fbcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 15:34:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 627166110e3abfc6129509a73f70d676 SHA-1: 84d175504055459ca12cecdd805936d6d7bed211 SHA-256: b03eeaaac390fbcf314b28a2ebe8081c8894ca0bed4ca242638b0bf3c2cbde1b
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 a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865b226507a---8447589736.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/91083949502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a364ad5140e3028cbcc1fefbf9513d5/2063921922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/96520817761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebammenglueck.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vomevidezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/samimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madiagranitosilano.it/userfiles/files/kidekozozavetixovugege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e9601a9c7eb09b70777bec462b990f4/jemolukofezemupadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab143f41f7f---lokejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/zizapagibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/74166782792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.buildingmalawi.com/images/uploaded/documents/94353463090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d09d67a16---96718500226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/61172939581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/55496839626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/ridotip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607548ee0789c---vumegobokukutejaruluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb9e6cbaa1---rumadigabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c61914558---42002268910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2f97d4f1ba---volesolimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geostudio.eu/userfiles/files/67496258199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roeveragri.ac.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4673641654cedb4e43a98d676fd4c0ea/wawelinizasimafepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7fcae515f---28595840251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e77e3ce8a5---xagegemex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c9fe0800f13a8fa42ef628eaa990ee/52029285094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=saoirse+and+timothee+photoshootPDF 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_off0000fd83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD83 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 4196290f204c85fcbf6cf53a6ce33f7bbe77a218904739503de206e9985e00fa
font_01_sfnt_off00012cb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB8 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 8b3ca0f5d7cf1ca8cc28a6333560841526ab3bd35bec202845c150599f2574c6
font_02_sfnt_off000144f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1