Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 010cc5275787f8be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-08-07 17:56:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 15b06d92a4c8554dedccf3516183967e SHA-1: 1739b06140cd01f0e38a79f5be457c8115c9a348 SHA-256: 010cc5275787f8bed78fb0d0357f7120aa8a4182505a0eb1afdf9e69a29cec2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of an attempt to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=elellee+english+oromo+amharic+dictionary+free+download+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://donaldbermanmaimonidesgolf2021.com/clients/0/0d/0d43fbb8ff91cab41fa1b056c0d912a9/File/wonamuxokegorade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aiagogqqtvl3s8roh3go6hilf9/82937644522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27pgd9o20tek4siionsvvd4504/galabalodakavikovona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qo0lfufbqb5j09opbdcfq5ae5e/tajowakumikowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/53874776625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/79528791306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontakt.pl/dat//file/87146050751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuathietbi.com/upload/files/39292248386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbconsulting112.ca/userfiles/files/96148789134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e611d8de57---63040289221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przygodanaukrainie.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sakusifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs60to70.com/clients/3/32/32806278e47d7e4d905c37b1d6ebf04a/File/72868540108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/gowenilupobefimaxepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabaae39ef5---74767256328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609882e06a37c---5432326796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/100097455660b9dac425096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ri2mol4skrk0gmodpn3vust1m9/23824592898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayinbranson.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/27264257803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/xegapumavifune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c08167fa9263b059d85e5cb979d8668/pogeritilegonadolisaveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakkue.com/contents//files/likowetikijutemexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30c959891f0122c6cce929f2663737eb/28176511351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alubiasdetolosa.com/files/galeria/files/52322351977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5daee5806ee1678f7565aaac2e7555c7/73927164315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7fc9d32cf---95264663094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/dizanulavuxume.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_off0000ca40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA40 18196 bytes
SHA-256: 12eb823a30265bb2697930705e30234e8b3cbac1f77174cd765cbc056543ac80
font_01_sfnt_off0000f866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF866 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001107d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1107D 11248 bytes
SHA-256: e30aa15eb21f2954ebb53844ca78efb869c2483b9c89049895358d9515424b5c

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