Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10b425ba08804a31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 20:06:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7fb7030d04bda58dd39fe24aef11a423 SHA-1: 729f7faa79e5b542746ae67a692e8b7d4bde0407 SHA-256: 10b425ba08804a314308fd2ab424245cc742b6ba7c9dbf27a024f6dd323ddbac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic indicate a primary function of redirecting users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609140053ff47---ginigeparukedewubogu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/file/12029904531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/48265744398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a70056f42b9b0b9d536e6362719c2d9/94362557361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae35bf325f---92264914045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spy-military-labs.com/userfiles/file/savaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54900de463b5b85bd395eb7c9b8a5d7b/74233734922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/saduvidujalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0edfac5f4d093e74f8477ae591de1a53/94700761143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/36315318812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ca85e6b5a---59865557285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/89946790048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce583901abf---mokoluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607169c05397f---todavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e17b1048643---24806526564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blnk.eu/userfiles/files/90288115129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160912ffcc6b76---64536723211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/webepufetekikova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811da36ff09---63985115594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tznjl.com/userfiles/files/77432326154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947bc486147---42423208974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/2021541722527534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160deba00ed7ba---sidapiwuvobovarabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898342bc0c2---26413728386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshuka.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60542093921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c94764d7bd---49882913919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eea7510f2c699fe8b9f69bdb42128bf9/79645236633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=i+need+one+more+nightPDF 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_off0000f8b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B4 16976 bytes
SHA-256: 16c59406ac2eae5ba60f5675bce14c997027eebcedcb13188f039ece84c0c1b3
font_01_sfnt_off00012532.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12532 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D49 10268 bytes
SHA-256: c6ec7807e825ce7aa0cb6c56bfff06578395c6ac86aa61815db90c42ce1ed461