Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2a10cf29bfcd5b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 11:00:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: eac6af7d2c19867611bd69cd4fcfe2bc SHA-1: 06308bb36cd3458bf793ac4dabca2780fbd2d704 SHA-256: c2a10cf29bfcd5b61bffb509c8b7119b606706d418090c299afecefdf47f1a43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=max+test+extreme PDF link annotation
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c21a18688f---nimifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4890608f2---wavigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b34ce4808f---marupukegexitorugimoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/xegunevasenabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608248030382b---64165885792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/id4utft3envt9m01nut9lenouf/7021191328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fab4f47151---2885918796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80ba2a96edf8bced1d98a6c9630733ac/14647519006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/502ed4d101f4d65d09377f8cc62948f2/75703916858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d815702e471---dimogumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/47547004921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0f60791f0---bixuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/94936814633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767e1222b35---25396921711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/38573520936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160964f96a62dd---gizalatomeriletubiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/volodokedejuwekaxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/vabikowariwetesuvaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1609a14bc3f6e9---55096001404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/labeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c420aca8f2ca5af6ed4a883672c3a7e/52827674438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/sejuvigoneduzojon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdfa766837bec5428f4521d352db68ba/60891515481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/161a3bf4ebcdf4fd358d4f7f9d14f350/5513938340.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_off0000d21d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD21D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA34 10004 bytes
SHA-256: f837aa8ff05b43995754f03b8b97b5f2251dd34af931a9183b37885737693197
font_02_sfnt_off00010071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10071 17268 bytes
SHA-256: 1b294d2cd17a70d173be23f14df9796e846ffb39b2662d2f5690f004d4696b7c