Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 102f781d94ffce38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:09:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0c8fff636357bd76eafad84bd77a8c21 SHA-1: 5c3cf718519ba0ea6811ecbab2e8e897840b9989 SHA-256: 102f781d94ffce38f96580f561b86d8be67cddb32483b79824005f29408000bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous links and the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://chokysitohang.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/34832427922.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://curtisfamilyfun.net/clients/e/e0/e02f67ab5b6879a7eb6c21a3163f7106/File/736768743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608468c04fa72---werizur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/32708195780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0c410081ef---11895028606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702a902c5f4---36413062887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d534bfb24ebf64ec81e39ee3d8bec739/8363636184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/716633392672c76183d9427726788306/83325454594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4126126af---46488567354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6e11921423a435dd89c17be72733528/16864947473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/sanotabukaloxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asesoriagade.com/app/webroot/files/files/90166419910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/zelekev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64edfdc93d303f7233aadb099d827c6c/vekesolisuriwiluwebagegun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a08e3168df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6eba2a653b5551a48ffabff6cd05203/35870259998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pataibicaj.hu/userfiles/file/20243531943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalltechnik-kutschi.at/82880889218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1189be19c---44580620077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at2-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/ropufojegulirebemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llibreriaha.com/img/events/file/45545480359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/73761511761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec9cce1d90---veropoxosub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c32c97eb42eeb9658bf98846a638f804/78014280214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=mikhail+bakhtin+the+dialogic+imagination+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99663537b8fe1cdedfd96e9e4482bca9/49061147091.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_off0000de1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f635.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF635 11024 bytes
SHA-256: f5ae7b64854c4726a93ae1d1374fc3e8d635fed77b7ba7dabe2d9808d174542a
font_02_sfnt_off00010f2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F2C 20144 bytes
SHA-256: e422030e7e03d92309e52b03981de5be0aa29fdc6996e059dabf473091ed444e