Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10d1f673846c6f31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB Created: 2021-10-07 19:13:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 07cbb0ffee75ff23428c27c0bbb73c51 SHA-1: b311af3d5c294f02813e915e2f8ee7cad3edbb47 SHA-256: 10d1f673846c6f318241f09d82c055747b58e7b624d81d9304c688082a24e641
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites, likely to host or distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing and malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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://haki.vn/uploads/files/panixubijakabelomuwez.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://istanbularicilikfestivali.com/upload/ckfinder/files/sogiwulope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaushalacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mepixezediduteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htk2.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vipagosib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/50241732561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/jekemawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/77523590472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttfi.org/app/webroot/userfiles/file/28413217725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-odincovo.ru/upload_picture/file/sutakifaxuropigobupep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anglometais.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87186549367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizergranulatorprice.com/d/files/kavebugof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://american-security-inc.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17459396033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b714d1be2---25976298026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ab296ce9d---5713688862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libyamonitor.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59509797149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/gesaponegabasoxevuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/32921455500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrixx.lu/images/risupevakomubogijamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ping-property.com/user_img/files/93856290482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gs-metals.com/filespath/files/20211004211307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/49023540517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbamedica.org/userfiles/files/lurejitobufujutimapifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emblem4home.com/UserFiles/Member/File/dulupapuzuguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gowowdeli.com/uploads/files/42378252209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futurefacesmiami.com/uploads/file/feniledurekidilevuxexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615af1758dabc---tosemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=four+properties+of+trianglePDF 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_off00011eae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EAE 22856 bytes
SHA-256: e94d07f1c849555233ead3ac16b956ce5d4d0d9dbc4e4646537204a2e14c86c5
font_01_sfnt_off00015a05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001721c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1721C 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 56f9f43cb50cae109faaed20b8b33a5c3cc5a71e343b09f15945e02c8bf0dd40