Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10d0228e6f2d0161…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-21 04:24:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2068582713ed5d574363813bc0e34892 SHA-1: d5ee98443c22ebd6a29be6a74257f8bc5b9767e5 SHA-256: 10d0228e6f2d0161cf60248ea4d5517a20c84ace248ad64c7a6a86c5ef60f4e2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings are sufficient to infer a malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da04ba73542---rebebexekok.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/par8eo1jvgah1l2sscdc7pcgo7/jomabikimawexatagexowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7flm6qkbmq21qeupqmkvebq80v/jarevuxajuwazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac92febaa09---34018365241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henca.com/files/details/file/xorekazun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/540a3e6c82645e77cafc071552be5c34/50333974112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chikatere.com/Upload/files/84591885122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemisterbauldingfamily.com/clients/8/82/82a21d9598fc66f9117a8fb7222c8fd0/File/gizanuvarod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/rasuwiponovizubomekoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/65219034709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muacash.com/webroot/img/files/maxuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c3cdaoso8vji69pk5m7eero8j/51957544728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/kidezawowitoxukavoradep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/68932402164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/betubataga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroear.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zolibodiwimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/detakarifones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/34473855987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/solexarujelitixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d26990eddb0---90045121707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cd0e1e4aa9de4ea7e57156713789b3d/93769880664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39b3764691d92ae5d3ced0d775f5a406/37332887888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/pakezogifupelazifog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=construction+project+quality+plan+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_off0000f615.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF615 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 6828d456101834db5706f8e5ad6a26c357d21fc3810b904912e1f3d85da1af7f
font_01_sfnt_off00011004.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11004 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012816.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12816 17272 bytes
SHA-256: f34cc81001f001be4083238a343ae22cab27554c8f2a03543a641ab279f50937