Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 610bca8b38efcfde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-08 07:56:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4d7e5e41c2fd63ada9df99eba7964858 SHA-1: ecea590d1c700c9e2a03032b93ee7b906600fc6a SHA-256: 610bca8b38efcfdec2e09c70e8af048426aa8d2f9f05f58578fb660394e97e26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae75a28e61---64573368222.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8d508a9ec---kiwanode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/71038182878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/458efba60ae7e43e58735dd1bb0f0de7/76108411217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/kogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8bc93e2e4---tuluzinalileludexuzodup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/005d40bc5f1ecff5d5cb07b4553500d3/filewifeximabas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhodium.vn/uploads/news_file/56735013941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/jupiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b17b462bd767844c83f94ceb32d84694/8977943286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d51e8ec93e---15332110177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/92842640833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.latentoac.com/portal/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tb7mt913i4p07ep74qdj8hjvpi/960404340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/nevavuvukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31dc3c9a61eb554c3f448e8d43494188/gagebopot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e89b0f543---73728305389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/luzalomumofafuluvulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catherine-massage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/letazevisokesewabolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/zaguzufuronamako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c76adb658253ac38eca100daba50082/4586070338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/bodizoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/renajolifelogiwapodeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dacac723097ca16410ea2c26fac4ec3e/46024863737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8121ea0d57---lutazebarelemibibajobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c14a9ed92---lopegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=functional+group+for+ethanolPDF 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_off0000ec88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC88 16768 bytes
SHA-256: d90c961e024cd27c890f23792512455aa77d8a085e441a8aae7e319ab5f37b4f
font_01_sfnt_off00011853.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11853 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001306a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1306A 10668 bytes
SHA-256: ac16707aafa129d780ae6a529ddfedab401b421051fd7182693aec80af048e2d