Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b703935f8ad2c968…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:26:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 02e47a183495a4b8d39ae5457f801ca8 SHA-1: 516ced012f900cc11493b4ebf13d8b96f803549e SHA-256: b703935f8ad2c968b8bbd2871909fbd07659d573f70c8e3fc14c4331bc0ece98
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection for phishing and trojan activity. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress installations, likely intended to lure users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

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 http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07af2e9443---relexasibowakut.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/879befa44823b8d8baa18b86c9e94726/vevibuvozaxuzezigisoxesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://52fotki.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51119250169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65bca5f3bc3dd7898f6be2fe39d3edc3/55719768598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabbleanddesign.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/29216477923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab86a54bb039725bf4a8f20a33403c87/zedev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/37807841563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fceec78db3b014c2ceff90ffba427a58/63431398497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/30174430005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/44769122697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b4d238592b44e10f4c4f349beaa24e6/99461846422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609877816ce9c---kemibegawutovus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19e74111f3---gifuzak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9of5lkhfn0b989522de7lc230/pavufukupafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13ts531q09oe9bl5h5ggkpbqbr/xatajomepiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb9f7c2e7ef---zovan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9b842b60e---3401043888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2e1831a35---fuzokosudoxusudigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ia7lp53p5ssdi7lr27822la7h1/13614326508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/53088662567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gcdhsh228cva18j00fauo6smil/vulosonogobazugudivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/gopuburokolubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/29999550421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/96878287427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c714adaa27f---jebajerubikiteforilorub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=22+kb+to+mbPDF 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_off0000ebe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F8 9720 bytes
SHA-256: e36b2d8f30caa262b1b5518424251431598beca37b1850cd19790699792e11a3
font_02_sfnt_off00011938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11938 19024 bytes
SHA-256: 7bc21a65f4593f3b721e8d937dae4b601b5feb3b84c054c9c873575128257a04