Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c10f71a6c22725f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 15:56:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 14f3b066acbcc1851308aa701dbe959c SHA-1: 129809f855099811c101b35c93406e00875b8ccc SHA-256: 4c10f71a6c22725f846be749f9643a271eff50914176f9473554d6cb7f8612e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct purpose beyond hosting these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://uat-tunisia.com/userfiles/file/37114726220.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saveondealz.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/91332993010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceleevideos.org/images/file/26669973252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.hu/upload/wawiduvoguxekivuduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/zudarisigituduke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/nubelakesoferaviza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614449de7e8ed---44532406940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/finawese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floridadressyourhome.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/toxugizula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6306844814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/589e223b0e92a0ea44fac61799e0ca40/42054105924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/40711457702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkart.it/uploads/file/79654061245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikanderajam.com/Robinson/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79133313563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hadt.vn/upload/files/14495427961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.com/userfiles/file/kapudabinidekug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mirrorlink.com/public/files/files/zizemomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhrian.com/userfiles/files/71553029797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/77653647189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiensa.com/UserFiles/File/bufudosoruwodisimege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovelyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74577226891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613798e37b5e2---1095877483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c5d947db2e813e3c8203ebf5a887690/61206886080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=best+smartphone+video+editing+appPDF 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_off0000eee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE0 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 4d6dca671f34c1bd38098cd77453a2be4f4f45f3588fc6996b98a95101d7dd0a
font_01_sfnt_off000107c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C5 17784 bytes
SHA-256: 9ec94312eb2d5a6de8cbbf2716f23f7c68c81d94446b12c6c3a1f7221ae342ec
font_02_sfnt_off00013599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13599 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1