Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0a10c8f2eb36c33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:44:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7ba5262bca890f025ebc24bc81c44222 SHA-1: a6908a19ae749c7f071bc6b693e20f6fbab00162 SHA-256: d0a10c8f2eb36c33fd03397070577c0f245e4a7617bb4dba2688dc376a63652d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery, often initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=of+the+given+anions+the+strongest+bronsted+base+is PDF link annotation
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9af0c896c---80583912181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cf4f0b075e549a808a88e8fcebe2a5a/29206163153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2c77f733360e181f1f5e3644c8e28fb/18837165061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d8381c64c---70993532175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/27056125920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c888e393466---wejanejuwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/59993879781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9e8925f7a1---11347036593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents//files/jixokuxotesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2uuttt7krbcna69lm1cd77tcfh/bebapojobikolejaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fa3fjbed1pts71c8v577jlcrr/xamupofobonaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0a05e7a5e346bdab5c2aa0dfad8fe0a/lojivunafez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/tadelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09329c64c4---nujexanarovujidav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7f5e10201---98573829049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/20216151845267525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607756133ea14---wojagokigavasoxidetewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/773233fd12b0926dc3f3d54c5a801ef6/sebikogenulopiroxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6svsnkjp7rh2stl38uvedhdhk1/11045950315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/wurozud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ab613726d---bedurowuliridevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0859cfd34ad744b0cd7806f32676348a/83934991478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/62224488704.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_off0000f4a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A8 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 2f952a62d2fdabb7657e7de6322ae1becc58c770f2e63b411dcf039476507550
font_01_sfnt_off00010d6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012581.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12581 17852 bytes
SHA-256: 19f29b25abd7205483758e4e27b0ec50eea52da96d38751ec7708c16e2278296