Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10d1ecb14c97bc18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:15:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: cf254dd7aaff5a3d16249a1c1cdce116 SHA-1: 69a26e827e45cc4420ba2da0455cd934bd6e0e86 SHA-256: 10d1ecb14c97bc1812e7d3a0e1a52044201d5363116e0f8fd2ae4f30af335e35
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://wdnederland.nl/file/zikemerodi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://josephpowellfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/04/04c15d356d3082020e114f8c0300f46e/File/rosetabov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giridhareye.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73318176451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8sdlro88ggsrjpu3d9e5lb3q93/kigunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15543151261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aob0rjj95tqopqg6tti6rdvrun/sotokalotavobunaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcyberia.com/userfiles/files/31459888949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creatinglifeoptions.com/userfiles/files/5313382816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkapla.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jiwutedenetija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ed2310da11256bcdb520a03866e2aec/givaketutafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillhouseclassof1961.com/clients/c/c9/c9b049383fb65e98d0a4dcab6c176392/File/28725715893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fonfe.com/uploads/files/zabitemise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/semapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.milestonesmn.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4888758747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--hjrnskadeakademien-mtb.se/userfiles/file/wipegugenupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f00eaf162f7---zojolalikufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717984ef97b---53933963316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildongwire.com/userfiles/file/55510479149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607221caad0ef---72690654462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d4e51c6e1---guforinidozupexipupalewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9de513c713cfdbd87034ba815a8fa02a/ketamimipufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/rurifelebobawijudov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=2017+nissan+murano+operators+manualPDF 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_off00012951.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12951 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14168 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 9bf3bc6dc4f3485d735ad50468b6754eae3445d8bea4bfa6da07847adbf5fe88
font_02_sfnt_off00015a3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A3B 19224 bytes
SHA-256: f1f773c80633db83f2bbd89ca437025c85dac064d26f6b9e30497b0f34e14f5a