Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 010e03bd8eabe9eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:30:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bdd138db7f3c65d6c0b4cc6c3be97b83 SHA-1: e39238b0b3bea2d3dbcc1b2f26da97437b0de4b9 SHA-256: 010e03bd8eabe9eb13db1663bd6ac32e38421dbdc0221a1ae58a533d18cfa6a4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure for initial access via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=freshmaza+south+movie+download
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/2021941430511659.pdf
    • https://rusepress.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/lumobif.pdf
    • http://pathtojanna.com/userfiles/files/55223265918.pdf
    • http://privateeducation.sg/verzsape/demo/upload/admin/files/58618585685.pdf
    • https://isuzuphonoi.com/data/dulieu/files/nugopid.pdf
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/tefizi.pdf
    • http://fra2ange.it/userfiles/files/50240908847.pdf
    • https://xulynuocphangiathinh.vn/images/pic/file/gukeleg.pdf
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355a8583be8---40228791640.pdf
    • http://liga-stf.ru/i/upload/files/10701812120.pdf
    • http://nhasachnguyenvancu.com/Images_upload/files/pipokatijamug.pdf
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0910/c68c8169524a74f5b2c1de9fba4c2672.pdf
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vavinakejiwit.pdf
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/vupobime.pdf
    • https://www.agencesramos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5791328141.pdf
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images/fck/file/2661455572.pdf
    • https://groupekineconcept.com/userfiles/file/17034618197.pdf
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315067e70dc---88478197183.pdf
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/48463721098.pdf
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/95881534249.pdf
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d88f1bf03346493545496a825bc5fa42/76488067145.pdf
    • http://zzzwchem.com/upload/files/34117941034.pdf
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/fexukodewal.pdf
    • http://seatraderhk.com/userfiles/1070492258.pdf
    • http://gorillatheory.com/admin/upload/file/26459490455.pdf
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/77310640871.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e06c.bin
875effe9be952163867ba73907f7818230922f6b9d200de2743f9084496321a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06C 17692 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010da7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000125be.bin
8d4fb79329e5c3cce1497499c7a9e1ebdf953f057c6cf063f782a0f75d729186
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125BE 10800 bytes