Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10e57ae70d400f07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.4 KB Created: 2021-07-17 12:58:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8bf94b311e1e420b3040b700c848e0bd SHA-1: 1c1321f4b7f55fbc7d311c5940a5b546cf855f24 SHA-256: 10e57ae70d400f075d7356c599dcc1fdf44fdefde9975c9a8d6e1eaa1275d9b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or redirection scheme, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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 http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cbbd1ab89d869e5d5ceca9a722e553b/27567169240.pdf
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5ockb6tsl1tsss1kiumeihdap/zotux.pdf
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2r5bi7n2hnisqpkq0puol69qk1/97331168596.pdf
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609837032a740---fuwexokasoxazivojuk.pdf
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772cd37b0f6---52386122770.pdf
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38764792959.pdf
    • https://nguoixunghekiev.vn/userfiles/file/55136771480.pdf
    • http://cipetbhopal.com/webimg/files/36928534591.pdf
    • http://charontrade.hu/data/file/marenumofudot.pdf
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7e2070cead771f5ed7f4ffe6cc81c61/67386638600.pdf
    • http://homestationrealty.com/userfiles/files/gijuv.pdf
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/030e92155692a9dbe5e97193d74295b5/30129248399.pdf
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///76031076034.pdf
    • https://infiniteprospects.com/FCKeditor/file/44433106587.pdf
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/11751316521.pdf
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/98279286221.pdf
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee82bd4fba9---60891828897.pdf
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a7dfdae43---1853593075.pdf
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be77b60dd5a858fc1900db1416630086/99276513600.pdf
    • http://mawaevents.com/uploads/file/tepadilovamuraluraw.pdf
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b132464265c---42383655762.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=proportionate+meaning+in+malayalam
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001106c.bin
00d80e1e26ef6c2d17d35e1b70bdf67ee7337488a245d048f3ebcd19b5408b02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1106C 10540 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012869.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12869 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001407b.bin
fb7cda2a5f41ddce65560b1c42f4d374ed479b82f628ebace4fb188d9c0f443e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1407B 19144 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000171af.bin
7a37b07300b32578f7ede96d47c75fa9192719f5b1a4927122f47b15168b6d62
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x171AF 16244 bytes