Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e03b3c49c962cb5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:43:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 64a106e38ee968a7079c9f664336772f SHA-1: b623edec384507e21c24a2aecc866398608b0e73 SHA-256: e03b3c49c962cb5b4c711a08f1673e133e43195189f0e5c4f6788eed543600f7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of embedded URIs and the overall structure suggest this PDF is intended to facilitate phishing or malware delivery by redirecting users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a97986d85---40540445330.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://felicitareonline.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57852761333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oqihnj90l4fq0e4e8d2a8b4u3o/lalogolutudarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingfrimale.com/userfiles/files/58266992670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fhnqjr92d90uunpg9nlddlvcp7/mesinumamigux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nkmate.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210801_4EE0E8D18B581C3C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd754c917152ca451c563bcd88d5bf68/vutope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210804_102153.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/805f1a7db465448848d93ac1a38d6c34/wilujakajuninak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_students/files/38206720713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/devipigemiwelokovijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clasesholandes.com/userfiles/file/xapamole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f40d2ded26398c861dbbb7b194bc12c/fabukuwufitobejezarez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elmundodelapiscina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kodevipipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9eq5rojrpo53st00skf47mj6dd/69752915542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ff3555dfa---37725886539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimsball.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6858175042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c6aa35f8---41378398591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinproject.com/userfiles/image/file/mawutowazakefovaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziwafogutamuzepajow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b123180b543869bdf0026f9f121d08c1/35025644642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23517716417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/kakutopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=computed+tomography+physical+principles+clinical+applications+and+quality+control+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_off0000cea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEA1 11460 bytes
SHA-256: 2994030fbcd51a0297e36e606333a192b896ccefc416ef709930c4cbfea012c9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e911.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE911 15996 bytes
SHA-256: e46fdbb2d76007f3c1322baaf451d3cb014618d3752593b9fba4625c307d3bd0
font_02_sfnt_off000111c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1