Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10ac708b64398708…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:43:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: df75310b4e9b2a2ce2bab8ad2258d30d SHA-1: 4edd659aca4b16e6ba774e9981f66609a5a7c7e7 SHA-256: 10ac708b64398708b9bc052f252bb559e3191c26ec818bc9554dbcd475ec3487
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it acts as a lure to download further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links strongly implies a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=electric+field+intensity+due+to+dipole+at+any+point PDF link annotation
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/19046111675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netflor.pl/upload/File/gepevexuxexipufiwepadixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/12068486308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa14e8884c---93321773725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///zefamebemuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088cc530d217---28204213174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160999ff90b883---ketija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbdf54f45bbdb39668cfb0d938c68530/xijimekosuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d77b23d942f0bd87d83b58a0877f29ab/16714289456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/lagosometiwelejetogabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietetyka-24.pl/images/files/suzipefefetukipajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b968c0e97370481b657b389e523213d0/17056126212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c10c72d40---11075518197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822d3f4226a---55920008864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021051621564856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/51920672731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/legeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1careglobal.com/upload/files/88326785275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnimeina.it/userfiles/files/73384150243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents//files/sobigobomomuxabiladupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210522071430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85f59644c6f18810e8cff83869b748a6/futepovigobedisikesubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c225cf5dc7f---xojagosikerenoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/76394588260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/gokojufugutumivugiwidugo.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_off0000d204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD204 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1B 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 553fcea83ffec5b50ea1546bccf3971d901ead8ba233c023b6ac988bb4a55b43
font_02_sfnt_off0001032b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032B 18360 bytes
SHA-256: c3a8d8c738eeed6a8c0acc9a80292e78d846a727f534b0c508cbe23801713075