Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10a27c0053fe2060…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 16:55:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a25351fe92b0ed8a2120ea0fe4de7487 SHA-1: 1d0d61cdf7ed949c357162087bc84c9b8741253f SHA-256: 10a27c0053fe20601b7482a67444cc53058a2aba5a35cf1768303e634ac61f17
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links reinforces the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=motorcycle+games+cool+math+games PDF link annotation
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614258c77efba---45970766108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/44682276389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unchiulmihai.ro/files/fckeditor/file/39511223305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ieqaast8evt7c6ra94thgvcjf0/liworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af67fb23dd---gutuweburap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134407c73003---nezamoxufopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasleemdubai.com/userfiles/files/66297831859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natalieshuff.com/uploads/file/gepaluselevusadowidetigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhygiene.hu/editor_up/mojutoroligegepijapam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galerie45.com/userfiles/file/domowejubijozewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a899b1766c---miwufejuxezikogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roocenter.ru/upload/file/69432504740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rasathantrananotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84711196886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miet-boot.ch/images/uploadedimages/file/5661046368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://equipociclistaugeraga.com/ciclistas/userfiles/file/21742487766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/53618517747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905112652619542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstroy96.ru/uploads/files/76846811993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/93866813216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141d5c041080---51719284783.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/govaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huonglonghotel.com/uploads/image/files/8722773898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baiduvpn.com/upload/files/90441698776.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_off0000c287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC287 15996 bytes
SHA-256: 0d7bbfc72e28abe9eb13c1840d896298247caa6060ae972b9000f38432a09cfc
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB8 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 4634398abbb21d1145a50bdcb8f3c7d9fb9d56cedb745644dbc95b54e556db2b
font_02_sfnt_off00010409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10409 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1