Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10b2d486d558461e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-08-02 10:03:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b68f722ca70134dec4cc919e816a9680 SHA-1: f8a4da0654957d06f5476d9e220a98320341b2b2 SHA-256: 10b2d486d558461e8b8077cb86da8d3d30d1975bc7a8b8e8a353508794d1da5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely to distribute further malware or engage in phishing. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of formcraft/super-forms plugin vulnerabilities suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfaacb250ad---66933511381.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704dbcbd059---dolupenijatenege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772657ca14b---surefigixujov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1al333fsrdbuunp0gh2bo6musm/38136335532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihhu6584eb76uno589p7b5295l/99203089484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taylormadetc.com/siteadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13394946085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/82701768516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/dekurotojolizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef3d8704b4---27321905490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/94710287477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb934baae3f---zebuxeruwaneguvamavuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/fibokutugatufuzowadotofag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae21614037d---rodajopiwopito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d9b97422a2b67cf2cb9a9b4702fec01/42113716299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/82480866904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fff2eb8b2255a9518f7117318398eebf/mokelosepugutelexil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d82ef235f---wejopinafuwomagukuvit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/26861707131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/bevid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/15381783522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83217398060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/13310466325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dff54c3daa6---2120494257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+story+of+rose+redPDF 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_off0000ff2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF2F 18772 bytes
SHA-256: 3659be7815f966f3b70e50ec57ed9a22163a4c76e73a5463d18255149c2320cf
font_01_sfnt_off00012ec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EC0 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 29ed66f91d8df35220b48da616b714b3aad30a3d66477cef34dc630cd35c5cb8
font_02_sfnt_off0001468a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1468A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1