Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10a52416756524ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 06:56:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b929c2c2fbf480161f375ab8491c024b SHA-1: e56be1a49467bac142fc6f750cd901abf5bcc0ff SHA-256: 10a52416756524ad324ffa602912524e93830424990cfcc14152ffd46620f0d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal that the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious payloads, potentially exploiting users through phishing or other social engineering tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c0e202655d223713b52c0f0e491f0d0/tudeziwikebijeripi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/trj2dt7na5tjnoop3885dt4c15/faturozudazatidikusufola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ba12acc0b88dd57e6778c919c825121/nelisajijofej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8f332c74c---29045049372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/983f901aa88b8b5f097dd4f17f342727/bifitotevikotifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/rajenevafiwotakat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/rupexudeziwaganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/nexozakawemewotusorur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzbau-napetschnig.at/63457011600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/lidifunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5423o2kttfbe2qo0o630kefja/7760695157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpokedb.com/uploads/files/soxemeduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987dd9c44fb---91172050276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovad-ltd.com/userfiles/file/411661207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gucgbvhm5cgdqqa6k33078k74/7775285585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/3032965614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99f30d1fa820c3864f9126e26bd389e3/sewibajuzewonarev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/103fdfe26c1c2e4b3693363a06cef5f2/47777067990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8295878e7b---sezefubikumetonexagare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908a5420a6b---61830263605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/42140342051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.combangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/pudanudosikoxiwadejozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e4b743962---xogonawelupaxusogef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=best+thing+to+put+on+a+burn+from+hot+waterPDF 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_off0001048d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1048D 16980 bytes
SHA-256: acd81b8e7c4d6eb8a93d7968d51984c424c4665ccd7747c8c8bfd76eebcec3ea
font_01_sfnt_off000130d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000148ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148EE 11136 bytes
SHA-256: a4e9be77790533a615b767b94fcf762392d80b012b4dde2a5b96b9d07daec14d