Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10f7a3ea212e871e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 14:05:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 2c7c22312230c4bee43a7fecfb1b258f SHA-1: 5bbd873ac3a70a433af0fc8a6b65344eb1fe9f86 SHA-256: 10f7a3ea212e871e580af51fa8e29aaf01192b4e6ff101943c56e0c4cd8c9333
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to compromised websites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and disposable hosting indicates an effort to obscure the malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=to+the+lighthouse+free+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771fe0c1de5---zumubekasipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiercontractinginc.com/files/file/zumujidadevezewopageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e669af1515---59680044064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44c806d0eb---zerekixovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df2880bc74---51890648805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/171404045624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avision-italia.com/userfiles/files/35207531955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a07c04a1a93---25918888207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/dakazujebamojudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/manaresizoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1bd7df81a---75932237349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/14626989939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606facf7ea34c---tidezutukowokidemer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharadsangam.org/UserFilesTwo/file/83187283396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/80589453144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebellingerfamily.com/clients/0/05/05034faaa501c69409a7459485cba135/File/43301433890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b6f61728bcb68d71d726b76d1e526b5/4812777720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/852b3b4e0d3ae0b325bacb409cef7534/nedafakisoketuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eg9cbeq68e4g2jub8js8liefk0/didutufonovuropi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5a6e31916---7693140340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhs1973.com/clients/64426/File/jegedibarazikiwinenujubov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a83f7856d079c43702df50b33985e2ea/34908544245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/14566430928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/isc7kvk1rgqqo1hg5s7ls431kd/vativomalakugamamivuso.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_off0000c9ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9EC 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 344967cf0bc2dd91c9162020cb623b624347a3893dc89d449c1f71230d90fcf3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1FC 17700 bytes
SHA-256: 868ef38531c74de1f6b627f239202395ceea84dc0603928056d061c7df254328
font_02_sfnt_off00010fbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1