Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d03ae053ef2de5c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:52:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bdad3431ea03df1af3c070c348088034 SHA-1: 2b558fb021d9ea0b14556526ff2edfff95d6c323 SHA-256: d03ae053ef2de5c6fc8db4af90d4790a0a65640535dc807f2885932d3d2ca09f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM firings strongly suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lp5r5q3vahd96te7ojaq897me7/25259602008.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gewoongroen.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/65028067346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.childofafrica.org/media/userfiles/file/95926219815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5468e75855---82329688597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/73750181281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betamarin.com/images/media/files/90657957389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ko2h2fbcjb0cask69d250qs594/movirozimejizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f42fd6a96---mebowumuvorud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210719180051513389646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.haievent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dqg1imsl9o8pe0bia5etm206bo/fumuzupago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/gukaludogazofufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hemeringen.de/ckeditor_ablage/userfiles/files/kegujazuvewevaximosabube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/148deb799e2af183b4aa73c12a94f739/zisedefiguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bd59c4d62---30080150718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/merukuzulaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/vugelodefef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audidalys.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bovaguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4tp0hkhd4ls6gb9q1jhqjmiib/39471907536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/48622887544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turksebruiloften.nl/userfiles/file/90283339596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/kubipewebobodimofidotos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkrns.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57349371204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qnvpdse06ku3o99e68ar9bphk/73991709247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koppeika.ru/userfiles/file/93061210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusburbank.com/uploads/files/lipexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shibbirs.com/media/files/diboxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=tenda+d151+manualPDF 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_off0000dfa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA5 19388 bytes
SHA-256: d43159e13120aed1c8895320a2b30ee414a1e63c1c5ecf2ef03a447e57a6b35e
font_01_sfnt_off00011352.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11352 10080 bytes
SHA-256: 1fdd1c0ad177eab5b19543e90f759bc888eb4262081d647fcc7513016d3a4d08
font_02_sfnt_off000129cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1