Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c03a582b7e9a0497…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-25 04:19:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d68b8f72bd17b65f6f1588d3211efc8c SHA-1: c851b2d743beb1b5f7db6949f4fdc3f359ee65e3 SHA-256: c03a582b7e9a0497b381541a0b0766e487c49840a8fa48837c4ac6209008cbc8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa63a738304---dutulipule.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://owtsreunion.com/clients/e/e7/e717deb27d844c69ffc49b2d3c0bb1a5/File/vejit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c4ff9ab16---dixowofetumexepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc5dea4583d---fexuganibanasuruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbe544e85b8---44013562901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7938603945826adc21c75bb558c9bfef/59615258455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/20828035181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/20326724691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigondome.com/uploads/userfiles/file/bixopowidaduvedewekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45436ccd73e0781fede51dbfb1048684/28517325900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohstigers66.com/clients/d/da/da15611725e7ba20b6827cbf2e24f87d/File/nizakaponiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amolq3l66jqml2eigvfmqn4tf3/4369931091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nlrabe534h89p44vsi5ferebvo/xefipuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/winazaladebutibapetesuwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afca68cd976---jusapopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e3e8cfd751000b061b6db7e9e853f42/42635195720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/10984706751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tubatutibuvaxawerowaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62d0876dcf27374bfe7a906588b45bcd/55917403066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francois-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zevuzuzilajimexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/liwoleje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/warapevokubogawozig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef5182bc30c2657d099e35ba61847e46/popubilafugudebepaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/45624971067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+relax+mind+from+stress+in+tamilPDF 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_off0000f737.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF737 16972 bytes
SHA-256: d8fb7f3d757e90689088679453871c8699b7e1692c8f21b82afe6fd353ff7a13
font_01_sfnt_off00012346.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12346 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 311860856a9eba21c39593093c92ffcb0cb1658c48628703b846ff2c16ec5985
font_02_sfnt_off00013bce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1