Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10262f8582b68c49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-17 09:34:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 559ebf858db1895ad776eddd8f0ebfc6 SHA-1: 5a2d3ffb97e63899844dd3527c03bc7d6f815124 SHA-256: 10262f8582b68c49d7b2fcaabd0b6cc1dfe80093033af5b2e92d7ce4ad0fce0a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, as indicated by the ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a high number of embedded links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a visual download button further supports the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b19b514e97a9bc007251c48386b91ab0/34260548649.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/wusujidujuxosewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1nbm8uabt5mef6028ct1opq27/kobiwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a436bb276b---zusipesawerugovato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/zuxoviridinuroxajedorafiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/12198445902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afcpi2o8ejbn01h9u5rlmresdp/munapuxufezurawobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents//files/mitiruzofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9153e4e7069663c4f1e8549cf965f8ae/33093353450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcf94db604a70f1b66620708e0af43be/jated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://em-mould.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vikerilumumefazenovosew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/raxogasikaluxozege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/17137120691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/41447740818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795dfbe984a---navumoremulapanofuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7dfa77349c---76637562097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belloverde.net/emailer/file/64721678110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/wovof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab1bc14634---88052159429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb0ab93103---dozipozogugovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6bab137c2adcafe90c03609431500ed/39196017614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=fallout+4+configuration+tool+guidePDF 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_off0000f01f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01F 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 9055450479d36a677db3c72056962593223d6c1ff1f10d9054bfd499a1bd8c9c
font_01_sfnt_off00010866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10866 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 8a240d03b98e383cd1225c802610cdabe9664820a02a2b153c4711ab636f3157
font_02_sfnt_off00013617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13617 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1