Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd10247d066e9a7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:44:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 1425dfd773196973110ac67cae854a70 SHA-1: 6c7ae94f8769fa04bebce35a155c1d4e3b54ff77 SHA-256: cd10247d066e9a7a54ac8a29691e44f8b6d2a248913eebf336949a24f1484e72
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, likely to distribute further malware or phishing content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6814da862---tuwutikub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fontaine-eva.fr/userfiles/files/78177659002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.octopus-quatuorvocal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83509809768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summitremodelinginc.com/userfiles/files/gepanubezolugamumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uklearningnetwork.com/userfiles/file/20906750047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f34756f96c---89546588426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6593062503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140073e6b340---91931417924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/84085074381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scp5o7m5jo28caqffq1cohv29q/21521536386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanga.asia/userData/board/file/48914359106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bolajijomupukapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anyimaker.com/upload/users/files/34799768575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piqiso.ru/userfiles/file/77989299265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/fotojokamike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09736edaf87d9454e47165cca3d29401/96113081753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.eu/userfiles/file/fopabosamizaxoratovazitek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stillincontact.com/images/mails/file/48680886385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131dbd7b7da5---61818102127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/57668985821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iviltra.lt/images/files/pavitol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsneotek.com/ckupload/files/zewavaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409a210cdf3---zavogewimofoxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=mast+music+video+status+maker+mod+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000ee5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE5E 19292 bytes
SHA-256: fb26c3a1c57dadc417b84a534cc7a5b1299540bc9e1d546b2fe068368466f56d
font_01_sfnt_off000120f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F3 11012 bytes
SHA-256: d3ce14632b6888e2d6259b945b564d06321190c85a8c902ea68a1f5a218ad311
font_02_sfnt_off00013aa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AA1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1