Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10e3c6133209ef37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:48:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f7e5824b15c7fde82496b89870d867e7 SHA-1: c37077004c59c77ae587b47eb0efc5b62be8513e SHA-256: 10e3c6133209ef3703147015e669e186ebdff7a284ddfd40a0c8034e0c9f5220
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary purpose appears to be phishing or malware distribution through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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=japanese+occupation+in+the+philippines+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b33795540bd---telewawide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/rupijaxepujamavokuduwowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/69475150228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/69345676548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/79085968758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c664cd3a517---93152350094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoinhikhoavn.com/img/files/sidoneradepovakobadowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83849730569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briquettemachinery.com/d/files/12734549821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/514e3517051611979a714444972bbe14/xuwipuzugisovumunexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boracayg.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210820_CA26A668433F916D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/77595496275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayinmaunhat.com/upload/files/18689989484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0661da17b8---xubuloda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fid-data.fr/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/fexisibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b186957ea---83645454831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/81669843740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd65278ddc4---48083423024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608690d8b18ae---1372043071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turdv.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/kakutesamoxukolapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/ketuwejefaraxavojisigudim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/33804173878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/39437519168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d0c50a3d1---vonizono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhuadailoan.vn/upload/userfiles/files/40242205746.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_off0000c8cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8CF 17316 bytes
SHA-256: dd6240ddc182193175a6046de5e8d8d88afa8535b8ca7949ec21db604e29e2c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010dc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC6 10708 bytes
SHA-256: de744801fb9c66fe6057207c6ec252cd83b7b42311e1379990f52a88a2c28f78