Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10608ce0e6e2a907…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 07:53:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 92f45dfd1eb5132bc933a57cf0ea4044 SHA-1: 44649e5f72942101b305fae58b5bae7566b99fc3 SHA-256: 10608ce0e6e2a90792f0d6ee997eac23a673a06376854a39e7ea8010b6a4669c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites. The presence of these links suggests an intent to redirect users to potentially malicious content, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+send+pictures+from+samsung+to+iphone+without+losing+quality PDF link annotation
    • https://jensbrode.de/files/file/pasagofotoborulebawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301a4423cbe---13195131137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanmuabancongty.vn/images/content/files/61205706282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614283985c2db---36087500960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasekurzy.cz/userfiles/file/migir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/40643188346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camdohungdung.com/upload/files/62586000627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sourceit.ke/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/21685339243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terrebleue.org/userfiles/file/99332607886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/xusirafokapolofata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613da27be6d00---24344478104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxm.pl/userfiles/file/domijofotusijabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/48597870669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sheremet.com/img/90691966621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balletpanov.com/uploads/files/paninusafonenejona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuketdriveschool.com/userfiles/file/zagus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92a3934c8582a7af0c937623487c8220/rigujugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andymullinscommercial.com/home/andy/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nisorodamomowek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/71901265094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zajazd-broadway.pl/galeria/file/76866392483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olddieselparts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekivoxufipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandenzobv.com/image_uploads/file/18129373051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learnrkb.jugalbandiresearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuzufiguxanuruwutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/81327566731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/25035025100.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_off0000e2c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C0 11504 bytes
SHA-256: 9a8a87b5ddaa91798e2ad074cd1ffa92eb9bf9e74c6934448b2ea65f09562b05
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011561.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11561 17940 bytes
SHA-256: bd6fc0b467368f408279927820ed5bdb5aa89b71cf94091927a256fc93d1d0e3