Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10ebf05259747766…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-28 16:36:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 22290b24a65f9943512aba5321aa91ae SHA-1: 02b685ae2e2cab9676c3a35d76be1ef71d5c4fe2 SHA-256: 10ebf0525974776689d14bba5b9b4dd4a20dece4aa1a628a6d9d2122a47f153a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. The embedded URLs, while numerous, do not contain exploitable content within the PDF itself, but rather serve as lures to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/2761786206.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f49de03fab7f2a965066da41f3bfdf28/xikadaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e9a45c75b---xujosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgzb.com/upfolder/e/files/20210803014304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharkovinkom.com/sharkovinkom.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/razerifukat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1783423612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuzfarm.ru/images/file/kasesor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atletika-pardubice.cz/files/file/30563658132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/ruwuzuziropitukuzawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd8835c459---39349605768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be50720844---67508762866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallsfamilyreunion.com/clients/876683/File/pevemakoniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8s46f1nv4enu58pkikka21lck2/vapani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a20bb88bf0---342473251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/105gmt46s27pg4hbol58t3mlr3/2881075224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braghieriarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/91896178313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c480a825047---77697155009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee2e395194---1909875320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2775bc9cb8---kexosuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd0512da181bd55af6383954e2ce74d7/15353851462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=full+form+of+tc+in+blood+testPDF 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_off0000dea5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA5 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 6e3a8e1c06dd4b31ba3b395bb8df7b0a55b5d1cafba808ddb71d05d62ce72167
font_01_sfnt_off0000f723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF723 16664 bytes
SHA-256: b09deb9be90b37837983857e89ca990ba8de9d14917688a9db5b7ed07b47cc86
font_02_sfnt_off00012224.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12224 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1