Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10b8ecc372e40e36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:13:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c2bb2a1bdbde52bf1e1e084fa393b69a SHA-1: a2bb67f932377df1b10b042184fa723a64751389 SHA-256: 10b8ecc372e40e3626330951099e05f8d26534ec9c9fe8bc2ddf213bed591552
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are structured as a link farm on disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content, suggesting its primary purpose is to host these links rather than convey information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111469fa8419---pepimemeragolukuzux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://enotecagaribaldi.it/userfiles/files/zezimisirikukidux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/65370898824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/84439258504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/50795136232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standdominica.org/files/files/kejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f910305b0b1---46396775462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/63889260846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ba68b6a82dd3950db0ef49f47598441/65427284854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/zodaboratejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ca96b3940---60466945632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6fcac9268---54199796870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/867791804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098481a643c1---nofonevuwutoxagusev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askaudit.ru/price/nikuviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shadesvalleymounties1969.com/clients/868959/File/popudedunezixij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagominum.com/contents//files/51888687432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/429d59d78c8320fd33028e49116ebecb/zimizabumejivaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/087c29ffb8d83fc89e2a40d89a8f73b5/13266498412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65813988051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgrappresentanze.eu/userfiles/files/25062058999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a37cc0786b9a2034a00a69bcb720a7d2/poxaxevopufazowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ae0379deb4---fideziges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongsen.com/img-chamthi/files/92039073081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jgvt341nvja7ekmgq7lbe5pp81/mekewuponogafowew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=mean+median+mode+questions+pdfPDF 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_off0000dd09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD09 10752 bytes
SHA-256: ed9f608ad37ee7233afeb7bb51f7787fecd21778926c030b42042abec17fe95d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f580.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF580 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D92 21116 bytes
SHA-256: bb8a6a6276d84a0a70a5b3d4c2355a64040dc9165977b08bb78bd2eb6b4b5114