Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f03c4700c14997f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:36:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4eef9d4a8310d0040d01df6186e76def SHA-1: e84a52ef3cecd89aa078c0a7acba1949cabf8b61 SHA-256: f03c4700c14997f91e302757e72e77f4b064416b6928c3eb8f1a2f94ca389440
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=writing+paragraphs+from+sentence+to+paragraph+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///xusomunikokitufusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e91d3792a0f307aea3d4601221c87577/50462840988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/223cc4256388faab6c16655fc9de7a47/42338632303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itineraire-consulting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90150384297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/78656972076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b1452549f---64667997593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609806ed964cc---mepobiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/88373700276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/malejitigipuloposug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612daf862a2d8---30552251426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61bd78a397---12849969437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb66021ffa---90044461742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahae.hu/files/files/barodedupinebifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppkh.net/userfiles/file/tabizosujetulabaxuginutog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac1b7532c9ac1336188dcaadbaaebe9f/falikatunijojav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5076d3d424616164b0834894378235e8/66011893182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/bulojozozolajijifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosimonepantaleo.it/userfiles/files/bamasezakofajunajekafizup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4be7e8b7f---xeteruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://life-worldwide.org/assets/uploads/files/94892363665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/65454451493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotunemov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22d08aa76b---gimavivawepuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/wevalajow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/62551318767.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109EC 18276 bytes
SHA-256: 3833245b50ec892b3aef25498062fa5cc69b22d9cd536e351ac1c7b50e765af0
font_02_sfnt_off00013954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13954 1996 bytes
SHA-256: 0dc89143472c09a689f4580b638841c9aef38195d23f8302ae1ea64aeaead125
font_03_sfnt_off0001428a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1428A 11016 bytes
SHA-256: ade5c2ecd24f94663676d3d4e6511563a837e45feb4962e4d1ab170dbec9609c