Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0c10176562d3a1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 18:16:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1202b66e7a7cb2439c824356559cfc0b SHA-1: 6df539068af8e59ea5425211681a3ca481e1ac58 SHA-256: d0c10176562d3a1c70400e55bb0bdb3f78bfa2ca1b15fea424caaf9e17f283c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. These links are likely intended to lead users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=seo+rank+reporting PDF link annotation
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131acf28fe83---nokezogotisekedoronuwudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszemotyle.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/2235806464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unternehmensberatung-hegenbarth.de/userfiles/file/lapifoserarotagusikavor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/9000985982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903123612385120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47e48bef3c838e2f1ac3ba39f125a8e3/kawubatajokowowibuvup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speak82.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/35761742536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgewongdesign.com/gwd/upload/files/35573940018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/vawobajabedateku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.be/Images/file/59562280370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investincarpathians.eu/app/webroot/media/files/giset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aedjtjdshbf.pretty-match.com/upload/files/suwuvavagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssvacancy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58061478754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziduboforimaposomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvconstructionsgoa.com/pharma/admin/userfiles/file/tovapuvoluxodulezigaxalep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356de84dc7f---48530090441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614007d396db1---80003023339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/93824475440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pass38.com/images/contentimages/files/68761881748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfollowers.com/ci/userfiles/files/zakepezuvatinekan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/22878889297.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_off0000b145.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB145 15520 bytes
SHA-256: 40db305b5129d24f3e58535160c3a8b149762c33316b5d3760932d6d649a575c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C7 10380 bytes
SHA-256: fe74bf41d407e135bbaaa8acabe9a935c622af4331d455f178cabea31c43f791
font_02_sfnt_off0000f066.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF066 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1