Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b10abb3a12ff1c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 23:21:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8ee9de2bb69979b2bffb6e79c3ebf3ba SHA-1: e8c33f96eaba7b23b236a62748b334060dd94ddc SHA-256: 2b10abb3a12ff1c3afafa9ec4b20819b4cbb337081519c59c1e93fc6f7e9535c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=frozen+shoulder+exercises+pdf+spanish PDF link annotation
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/giwupovewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solucionesinmobiliariasavg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sidibovojajozokesam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcremich.lu/files/files/80373250585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/sekoded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ceb370e7cd---biboruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606effea2bc3c---suziwowijuzepojidipada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rongqichem.com/upload/files/tifazebepupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14l32gg2dsybq3b.com/upload/fckeditor/file/93738160635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jerseybankruptcylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/49229590933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suphammamnon.org/uploads/files/23535058948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd8561225e---20221257086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odesignlab.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rulosurokulezutidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-021.com/userfiles/file/20210624151142_5jw01l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/loxitugituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cb8c1b88c---37200638712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur2.com/contents//files/74855550633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4319113be82c8b06ea61ae8a6fcd72d/26013256799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pveq7sb7pela616qa890pnlq7a/39596495619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/49216936730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608add8698b44---92413248887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gupalazobuvokit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/vuburasikokimaduzuzixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac20aeb9137---90759082549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axi-hohenstein.de/userfiles/file/rezexusevudagewab.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_off0000df46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF758 16856 bytes
SHA-256: 47cb9221c951b4365307840f30a1623405327f75872efc1d54cec338440dcf99
font_02_sfnt_off000122c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122C3 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 6a3354c85b587ed2ca9d70e7534f86693678fb028dc449ac050b20d18925ce34