Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10c2a4f52fc4a382…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.4 KB Created: 2021-08-24 20:31:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 620bac9cc4b4980fce43b91c8a93c6d8 SHA-1: 7c58e1e4206cf3330a41fbfdaf2dc93bff84f5e8 SHA-256: 10c2a4f52fc4a38298db5978167443419815efdbe4bbec33fa9a283ed9783a88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9921

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 https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhm47njvo65o0a7hfk55hdt7e2/90662295214.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/wubajurotasisozanozeluwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfrq3bfknobt6d10v59qhipk16/wegawoguvagijaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h67m8kpum0fcnl0fqroh5prd9s/sivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blankheich.de/images/uploads/file/83666999689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valubil.com/public/uploads/cms_file/cms_files/talamobedugepaliliranod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4859c046fc783cdb6fdd69fb4e30cd50/defosutafukud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/medej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e611da69c7---34205877919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a23b796c87a---95599134704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db71d9894c---743926563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a9fe9e73d44c19805330f753ad02a70/61821689687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/pedusowatelonuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontsgoi.shop/uploads/files/26789817755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tci5atf7c8bvjgiahjfkh6dhal/nejuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerproductionline.com/d/files/safowebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/jipiwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/feledawoveberovotipesome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iword.de/userfiles/file/rofufasofimowavirufikafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/39344195202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f543a590b6---53232172929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077739cb3aae---69847929210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=social+issues+samplePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001265a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1265A 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 1f557271a557ca0cc14d58e740405640047e3e257d55dfe7b356a9e940e07eed
font_01_sfnt_off00013de8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000155fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155FA 18992 bytes
SHA-256: 612db1fc5be33b4501a7b7b53269cd3a4e13d5b31b6f327bb0d356f3cf54c8d5
font_03_sfnt_off0001866f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1866F 16400 bytes
SHA-256: 716e8e5ac7858885fa13d173ef6dac1a9e2f15ac770853e269b9cfd02d0e7c93