Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d10c0f2de28f554…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:15:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8a972228328d55a760c5eb8fdf7684f0 SHA-1: 02c5a6943d5f1cd62ab0c3b9f6587c8d046c175a SHA-256: 7d10c0f2de28f55438280929cd27bf4c88ed0c2fdbb1d3da6c7aa3308679dbbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The 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 pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a redirection mechanism. The PDF itself contains obfuscated content, but the presence of numerous URLs on potentially compromised domains strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9902

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://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7a4cd1db3---6078214541.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95ba33adc31cc53cb4e220938ed801f1/95760202539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.twibiotech.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41615556745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhakhoaanphuoc.vn/uploads/files/kimudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b805f286e8---pixalakusuxolukisazubivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lulilipetexexul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/79662086775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvfbd3b6p5dm8aomvchmegjg63/61664424114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd18d434763---86434737378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b5c23ce07---64601146305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhao-tech.com/userfiles/file/85404579545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e2c7c5d8c---82691135891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855d594de05---gesez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e45edaf64c---17986096202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/20577557750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7335205cc---60876619290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-pvc.com/upload/files/wokudakigarepafod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/74934650695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/72908176594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/471cd6d20204ed76972529459eeb178e/37500943235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739035ccb0f---vedopuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvbm.org/pds/userfiles/files/67349584658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10683ff8cda9d60a475fe74d4a8d703c/tipudalokinesogube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimsball.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91751275330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7uigrqd15r411bcouoel4tm9m/40507566932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikunjfoundation.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wafadebemozizevinepuduteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/wivipexefude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=deductive+and+inductive+grammar+teachingPDF 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_off0000cf54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e76b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE76B 10652 bytes
SHA-256: e2db1f08251e8f80cde5eddf82bcf2935ec28db1fb5f32382a8ecaec04d4b827
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF6A 16736 bytes
SHA-256: 57121b7bb76a8143ab98094633ed94786b46bc3e7b3e6712d8c8a03063c2c232