Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10f5c31e219ed8da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-30 21:49:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c933a0755bcd35393b528ecbc87d6332 SHA-1: 86d69f2fe55c0ee2cdae8d715daff0740a04c6d0 SHA-256: 10f5c31e219ed8da9e4d2ba68d63db2baafaf216ca6558d60a48609f98a44a1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure designed to lead users to download malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b2ff7b384---gewinogebutisozofom.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fotovipvercelli.it/file/15804488259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/xifokebefopofunamos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionebriciole.it/public/file/3278980611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budaikepkeret.hu/uploads/file/38579367531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087355e60256---risomepine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/83447305874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/44776821907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/368dfde72b6bd2bac389f82024e0327e/66507666657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd65d759f1---wirubexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/6369621604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/fumatovibawalikiguwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluboutletmoto.net/campannas/file/zutifaxerajatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/90469823778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/jomazisaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/fuwovenadanep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fd12051d6b0215c444584e4a917a4ab/61270500047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-life.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofusajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domusanna.it/userfiles/files/64241330392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff9e846773---jupux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=top+10+engineering+colleges+in+hyderabad+2020+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000ed76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED76 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 21dc19e8f26a5d6469e209080c44a938e34f763da4a2fb0c4448879314346450
font_01_sfnt_off00011c5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13473 11396 bytes
SHA-256: 469a6faaa632c8e75748956ba78fb4d8f8304d6dfac370c99647e8557d64f72e