Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10e166c5e7b98f45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:10:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: aaa6213d04572431b79866ad00bd6424 SHA-1: f2a9c156f479687986da3cf0ebbbc80a80726eab SHA-256: 10e166c5e7b98f45299553104511b58e6527731fee9f9f79f261d036d557491f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and compromised CMS upload links further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89de51683282238902698629e2948a64/18807725084.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e367922c84---poputomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/bixijewakeraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/viganumibaxigigupuxefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/tulokiguranesinaxevifason.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610046acd1e67---voxifisixiwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad532d66ff---73736973861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ef10081f5---83952077119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a06ec5d73f9c832b1df481e0399e644d/bapafezobigipumokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9a7f4e2eb---xasurabaduzufox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/43329579657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/jifekob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/punisizavenodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/13357032214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de6ec22bf9a---32484257534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac294b4d538---foriwewozalupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daisytalavera.com/userfiles/files/tefirebukofobapufafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/42664171851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiorenzuolatrack.it/userfiles/files/74075139234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuketoansg.com/luutru/files/kawilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/bexuxavugevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oiseaubleu-promo.fr/userfiles/file/84326772779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210603_628ACC770633B445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=candidiasis+esofagica+causas+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_off0000b9e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1F4 15460 bytes
SHA-256: eb1ea1b27af57078f260ac76fb6a8b8f63250b39391428131a9b66f8108cf34f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF986 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 71524039a8b7be4122de7f43f33ab0fbec98d3dbc8b3c099a5a07ccd1dba71ef