Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b603e398949c4e43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:21:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b00960303fd5dff281d5182563203303 SHA-1: 37f4bdb0bf9070f5836d89ca5184c8b1baa7433d SHA-256: b603e398949c4e43c68f18a486b19968adb50ff17fd40b443cfc41173a4c7919
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URIs, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics reveal.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://thaiahpa.com/flash/files/38473789825.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/949u7ee8h6q2hekn1dt9cucggl/lususidirewudujobukapoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/126e6b097f2daa251244788722c408da/mekunetuxajawameguvate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icoenergia.com/userfiles/files/93013078986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3ec8a60f7---65529546906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://open.ua/uploads/ckeditor/files/70635214441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f382dbc9b---zijudewivowodutekobudat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotledlight.com/userfiles/file///69383882274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/mivuribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/jezopubusejurib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/duburipigotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/07/31/file/mivuzoperu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1813867ff---jipasubum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b42ee03ee57b1f8e110a1a0105aa419/jotepoluzifekuluxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3f3fb829bc62bba74a012d809702799/matinetetozuges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1338b5d45062e5c9bd6c210755905ff3/lizulakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oiseau-bleu-morzine.com/userfiles/file/jukexog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capriololaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sitevegejefirerenatagona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quatcongnghieput.com/uploads/files/35976702476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-margherita.biz/userfiles/files/53400861092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd2fb1fdbc---fapoxerijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1lqurp8fdiptu9a5bi3euvl11/48690550322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/72676415387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=directivity+and+gain+of+antenna+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_off0000cec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6DB 15972 bytes
SHA-256: ab9822edfe280333a39fd818c6151f15af83735c1093e7235bed2bde583fcd2c
font_02_sfnt_off0001100d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1100D 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 3639d21784a3403fb74624435174815e696132e751a31ce9408bac2ab131813f