Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c10f247b72835688…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-08-11 10:09:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ab8749265b15b0040bdf235b649d8a6c SHA-1: 504c889fa2c96e8ab8685a2ac54376888fd6562d SHA-256: c10f247b72835688b06378db88c8750aae80421c704e48219c0847326cc0d5ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The presence of many distinct hosts and UTM parameters further indicates a coordinated effort to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=philips+dreamstation+go+cpap PDF link annotation
    • https://fallahi-sch.com/userfiles/file/zameje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/nerufofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cbe0b58dbd---45834919370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastervin.ru/files/file/84464601865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee2c15a6a7d---wopedawufulegatipudol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921f6843cfe---winatitiliwepoker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4054c4d5b---49675598117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/sagakowutaxona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lajovisena.com/gallery/file/91608267457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbgk9ei9048mghanublsf2gvcd/49191336763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinproject.com/userfiles/image/file/88255353218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0eb197966e5f422138d298181461f52/48571140086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/31146074419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080df417bf2f---wivoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/91617848154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/kafunurasegib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis94.fr/img/pics/files/zaforizelixob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7697961ab---vebasifevafatosuroken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/nikirexanerijax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khamtribacninh.com/images/files/temipofogowob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fructusartis.com/i/File/xomoloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d19f94dea4debe5864162d7be639851c/37222458518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607768f1c2c4b---78532485671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f6e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010efd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EFD 10964 bytes
SHA-256: bc4c03f429d051d3ea495c1fc398c5677ee678acfa3917f3c7d5f744eb2c0279
font_02_sfnt_off000127fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127FA 17528 bytes
SHA-256: f4eac34fd2392b1bfd6551080ad18eeecd3f4b34ae1f0a880ebb5a1ff6ae2329