Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10249e9b70baca4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 16:58:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 05462d1a54f94c82a14b94a482b3bf92 SHA-1: 1e11d04102938e3117c45a10f4fef3fd83200dea SHA-256: 10249e9b70baca4e7f5ee9d5649e4439cbe7784bd15708a34b0b19a487832e66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external domains, many of which are associated with link farms or compromised CMS uploads. The presence of these URLs suggests an intent to redirect users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fermi+dirac+probability+function PDF link annotation
    • http://mskabel.cz/UserFiles/File/28168376762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614628bab154c---makef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibrahimkoc.com/images/Media/files/zolisanutasibudugewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.com/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/49414333197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnewsmd.deca.md/upload/userfiles/files/nejiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k12kos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47462339819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/goviwogelojawelosidumipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littleedupark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20124742917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://champion-osk.pl/userfiles/file/banekowexab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ccd1a8129413cf523631c6a76380bc0/18457755260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://defhjdrjioo.friend-match.com/upload/files/5078702167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beming.com/ressource/site-image/files/33308167645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://draftingfloorplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86806699517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertwestlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/2393504863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karaokejdi.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/47441662395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/feluwuwifolekuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff0a70395f---jetagifuxaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truckforceone.com/upload/editor/file/79165997963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be4b97d2fe---nupowowan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/8397261864.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_off0000d39d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD39D 19808 bytes
SHA-256: b3eaa8fa6d938c7c7163e8ff72cae0ddf951398919d905fe46ee7ba119ccb70e
font_01_sfnt_off0001078b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FA2 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 178b6ab3597a52907a553c7d5912574eb22f2860907a64eee6cdbc9afe2b5e24