Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10d50d042e283797…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 18:18:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 1ef1b0b8dbfe7192159ede9ba1eba5e7 SHA-1: 3d5ad24b902ae50707f2bd515630da34b61f1a6f SHA-256: 10d50d042e28379757ae46943697760c5a7aa259bd92137cebea308abdaa9664
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=large+red+fox PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgc10dmmacd988jm34dpt8m2k0/59382425840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4acfbc3c51---kevuwosotefopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1062aecc594744ddc0e1e8895bde3735/47938210528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/pujozowulazew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c2c7d7812---75192866455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/kevetodegadapejunuvova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c157373dd5---57100078927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9bf690e3ea---meweva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/fasava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d931c2f98a0d5fead97a93f50997968/tituxexonozidegutozujaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607761fd1e09d---99148444278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/tasedisawifofulojunino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/774b58c5204d57174aeaee54f75771a1/sasitexodibesolem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63d18300af---nolavezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f947c1191---35092225659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcf027b49d---litovosejarapibadovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90f1d005ff0ab45181b00b9cb4e05021/95027077269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a5a753edb2ea0f7239c3da482c1fcac/82380089250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/29358686449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/wuxikis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967d4050391---falotawozuwibiwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ebd6fe668oa0eujdj5ib8mcm5/mumojomowowidowaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e22c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE22C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3E 18052 bytes
SHA-256: 136723e74868e2f01ea332bffe5e4e4b938b82e1d9dade79b5d2781524d5d8dd
font_02_sfnt_off0001288d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1288D 10080 bytes
SHA-256: b1d160ba1d6249fd472248a6839008bf2d82af71feeac9cdc7c428e5a66bb14f