Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d03bf1e85ce07802…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:48:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 265fb4c396ee25d24252285de854d952 SHA-1: 4ca12f7583871798ae0d33bc106b58d09646a85f SHA-256: d03bf1e85ce078021f7f122167d00e531d1a2c6225772e7cc5f31970ea23d77b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to distribute malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=redes+sociales+horizontales+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://houstoncoinclub.org/FCKeditor/file/sonetanavapunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a230b609c9---vusebesokubopiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdn10.cz/files/file/77107495543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaphatmed.com/upload/file/1185559123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607327510c912---12368731997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.77ice.com/upload/files/99498920662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1fc0baab11d60e6dcb8607c417c2d52/gotoxugukifapaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runhouchem.com/upload/files/72663998187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/89857535304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dientrotiendathc.com/media/ftp/file/mimufemago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamnitikamini.si/upload/files/70215565074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/56641277109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cauthinh.com/luutru/files/4552420406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarazzi.eu/userfiles/files/nawema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/lopaxisufelej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8c75636ee---82904191119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decalvanphong.com/img_duhoc/files/6216927232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942e364130c---kipejadoludemidetarobaxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floresdeserrezuela.com/aym_image/files/76130503891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indoshaolinkungfusociety.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57873184796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/38361420456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveworldtogether.com/datas/files/52754997188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/310472cb90debb1537fcb69b5c771e3e/41870873319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myappartement.de/web/editor/files/90474572127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f067.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF067 19372 bytes
SHA-256: 356cbe73f720e2b8739141b833ce1bd3309d3eb424d5cabdc1b3e994dea93520
font_01_sfnt_off000121b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121B7 10824 bytes
SHA-256: f16ed6d5b21f84d3f2870fc755631d02843fd301f72ff754628662bd93cd767b
font_02_sfnt_off00013aa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1