Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10588a00c98f8212…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 21:54:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d7bec3cf29e75e7cdc26c111b74e91d2 SHA-1: befc7a905dc4218ee79bdb14803a34da43210e71 SHA-256: 10588a00c98f821284abd627e2a5f2f31991760874d906ecc32729fe2032fd36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0cd53b630---nelesu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.agenbenangbandung.net/file/nitefuzaxezidovedesivuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7bd3dba4f0bea35234bf075a6b7b566/gurutajip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m07fvf21scc0l4vl19vj1ivnl0/89155306261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3253cd579---50173677136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/leworaradonepajosewiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a111e42b46b30de2d94c9180fc57bd00/30655975634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/44728916156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoracing.hu/userfiles/file/jonewilonapajisesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vamaconsulting.sk/userfiles/file/3344963852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montgomery71.com/clients/34132/File/55638561559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlkscholarshipsmilwaukee.org/clients/f/f0/f021f13c5c598389be7e913a1ae626ff/File/dobujozar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/29375358734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecole-anglais.com/upload/files/13772128435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/86533416500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/juxolodajexudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalitelivideoizle.com/resimler/files/bavibotuwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/tuwejoxolefejabonari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/vugofewuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b02291ca9---bevonasixokasesazekez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/97158460670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608445e894f3a---60597823189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/rodomonavago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/geligabebavigukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omlt1ulf1libhh70lug0rstob1/7514072590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/digopopotubak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=partial+lateral+meniscectomy+recovery+timePDF 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_off0000fe54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001166b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1166B 10572 bytes
SHA-256: f000053c5482a86c15590d09ea274d67f427953a8d4854217b6fc93fefb5326f
font_02_sfnt_off00012e90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E90 17152 bytes
SHA-256: 20e1cf66f68392e45d42f215cff6da97d2794d8b76bfe3c97dab1491669c69ed