Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10916def3573168a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:00:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 68e07a4c6d9fcda952a7dc7356c0307e SHA-1: cf84cc9ebd37462a4e0f26a5345456202ece52ce SHA-256: 10916def3573168a0297661f87b7e623ff0018afac54a94e9221d8a9c8a841eb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports the intent to trick users into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gujarat+general+knowledge+in+english+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/156dorqcsa31t6vkqr1qlambg2/51166252499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b855f496789cf1f8e7f9cb167921e61/ganoreligagevoxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/29665822924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/zafelarobimasaxuwexakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/zilileludomiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c82c63cf7---87456010004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a76c8e0f86c7ac52f0d2af378ee2dfc0/11665225659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105c48c5138b---getifipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/befosuleriperir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cctechlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vukogowolasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o293q8490dlho72ghbjivghsnt/96980702023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d73b13a40c3---13412316708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826087d3a36---newakovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/ludemetojemuneloripujili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/auekbvtpcb9clsrek1it0anqeo/xujadomonak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a3dc7d49a6b81ef452383fa1e12c728/divotepasobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofupingame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/25941606241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skinrepublic.vn/webroot/img/files/77716573358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elstar.ru/uploads/files/98114211663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/vudamuzobabomisufefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8033acba68d142c2644f24462b15c0c/89179190799.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_off0000d4a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB8 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 9de0fb66487e547526b2d6313273265f570f34ce16247fec3bfe87906dd2b673
font_02_sfnt_off000106cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CB 17524 bytes
SHA-256: a010eb16ffe3269669c777e16c99828994e09784e16f25b7e5a4c4d7520adc45