Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b10508d630dd38d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:56:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 533c6eb11e6b02f679d397f132e8cd73 SHA-1: 10ccf35c34d865737e1744c70f7dd86a116b04c8 SHA-256: b10508d630dd38d18941c86c71e84f556168b7db9193a9d1296d2450e66d2fa3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, likely to lure users into downloading further payloads or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple PDF link farm indicators and the high ML score support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/solifipolukuxosetuzupeje.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mmalappeenranta.com/tiedostot/files/51898660957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ffe09c3fb---30000766315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jouezadomicile.org/clients/4/49/49939bf6a151252ba1adfe53d1befa29/File/32352673263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/rugezekepuxanopufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6919c5f89d---vizolopudavodebiwogapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ebtc7fd4qacvdrqtjo1ep0k5u/50795410792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggled-smot.com/ckupload/files/57665592705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5efd131d0638d6a3e17114d083758bd/64533532537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29398a20bc7f2c6461fa0a7fb0fec209/soneda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primeasset.hu/fileok/file/kotorazedapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af9f4407bfc3dc28b9fbc28ea9a54bff/kolobos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actlogistic.vn/upload/editor/files/79015037428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4018d9d5a---wilam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/37877980761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc3cfade61---98885271460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/dikidilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakesup.org/userfiles/file/72374752106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086841ee94c2---puginasanitofub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe29ebed897---92132890526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63ca7e36e02b0653986d28fa90f253f8/kedotepegab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevennews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33452501954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/gajuvodolisogupul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=can+onion+regrow+hairPDF 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_off0000de8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE8C 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 892546aa05c5c339a67d524cf50198c91ff37b3429634e0d8cec2f6b49c4dd4e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f560.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF560 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 9cbbb989b238f3b2d292fea0aea7b4723ccb972bd904ce88b3c4e2812da53a0d
font_02_sfnt_off00012218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12218 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1