Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d03038e75199de91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:12:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c0d998b40b8d13957d1b1639878bb722 SHA-1: 3ba17b02e8d39a2abb0e490adb3d919ff68bc035 SHA-256: d03038e75199de91b699de058857a38985d4bab484a5680d73bd75d9d9cce6a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URI heuristics and the ClamAV detection strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/jezedunu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsdienst4you.de/bilder/file/xutedejogadosetejepexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c593dcb988a6c5593cea9fcd312a4d41/pozanaruxulakalebosanen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63b5cf1d1f5ae88ad4576de1306a5d20/88678888847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da93bd0e2f---bakevorifiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoop-tech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10702595371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/fegiredolisilosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soft-print.pl/app/webroot/media/files/97444471014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfieldhighschool1969.com/clients/868116/File/dapakefubunita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b36db2673---43893676466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/fikekinibabotuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75842214634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608188511074a---33021869991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remont-bez-zabot.ru/files/file/15419207360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac4db9869a---40117210683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatyzvule.cz/uploads/famamemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/268a15d907aeeb979afcb661c7bbb8b5/kogijaferazasibebikuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medipharmacompany.com/userfiles/files/fizamuxusipotixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160af9a0d8883d---kipimabore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwpetersburg.com/uploads/files/37313235331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9c578063ff---lafonubasinaberaberizuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/60664353609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/9596500532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b2dbded2f---37484392851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaz.sk/editor_uploads/files/95042995564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mgmt614+supply+chain+management+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_off0000d303.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD303 11352 bytes
SHA-256: 94e48dba8ce71e9a2665d1f665cb0875967f5616d790e59d9e236b761a29323e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010595.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10595 15792 bytes
SHA-256: f4265d2518dc5a536fe12ea64b31e811a57398c7dfa820edf52ff7ce448ded30