Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e10bb58a3a75922…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:01:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3843ab376e61f2c565eb07f4fdee6716 SHA-1: b98719d56dfe9da2b93393302471df55fc5ccc4b SHA-256: 2e10bb58a3a75922a947e531fcd7458a2788cdc1cfbdb8e9b1b832fd94c1f0fa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614096db971a5---33571154344.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613414cd6cad8---nuviwonanojiritiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajk-opakowania.eu/upload/fck/file/92620067499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.com/eurostyl/photos/file/76322646167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7f93a1b1b8c0fc3d3fdb5d420981a2e/liwozadidig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terwaarde.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bokuzifiboxarironel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duplisite.com/userfiles/file/balovemus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210914182436_0280dk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tractortools.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujejip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/larufijuwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunganphubacninh.com/webroot/img/files/27662840031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1de45pkrv5lg50h8mdlasrnpb8/59803207953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614506efe091a---najidakipeduwelukelelomax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210916002516314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16186557286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatmyhome.com/img/files/depakara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetaime-shop.dvsportbg.com/files/90608480353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bevt3opeei75cchag2ue6v6s3/nogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.instalacionescueto.com/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34130942263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allier-genealogie.org/File:/64025871760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f25d9990801a0f5e5e880aee857ef65/lubejogozemure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=proper+vpn+apkPDF link annotation
    • http://zs.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61372175707.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_off0000b8e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8E6 10000 bytes
SHA-256: 49c41310c533f25693229e394e46f20f3e608b422e24b0145b49d160d3c51fa7
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF2C 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 58cdf656ab8c596dfbb647f50bcaf2fa21942869aa2d35c5c94cd832da638ea9
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1