Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 510a3f8d8326e4fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-05-22 06:52:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4e0e60e1cea03cf7784b0ec870c6cfd3 SHA-1: dc6e5c197245743f46aef9710228c35779a221d3 SHA-256: 510a3f8d8326e4faf1257faae894661f0a0ed72e6eb586514ae0fd0b6ceaa7f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead users to malicious content or downloads. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fe257c846---gesoluvudukej.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80sa3p3ot8aptdort0eoj8upk2/15400681952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db246a7f0b---medirisuralumidegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d307827f4---pitop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/44776821907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fogt32bia7e3l0oo73gl1i5tkc/35774058401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606feae46a450---10991410940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f29b3775d89e89dcd396e2b2383792b4/nomulitetozaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nn9bcfv4grs09c6hocecbolum5/98250167160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb2ec54035---lukipekinomikabexomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/941a55f099d010f3c37a4d7b1cbc696b/zesenetutojoketopevaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/68542402697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9190cb74a1020b002574dbbd1cdb7bb6/kuremuwugula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607970d16f8fb---56399282970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/74374605538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/soi7t3h5jtqrtdcendf4iap0u5/89189672618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/88718351465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=rutina+de+ejercicios+marines+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB7F 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 19414c3e00872d2412d39b3ac88a21b9b8520b89f0461d6d677a825be931cdd2
font_01_sfnt_off0000eda9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA9 11532 bytes
SHA-256: e542e9742d2cb213c3ee5f21e9831182124ad340769b76847384971c848a1214