Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d10c26a68feafeba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-29 08:55:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a1c8441c76d692ffd3df2adfa3325ca9 SHA-1: 8380a258f681eb50a529cbe4ec0fae85e7e5f269 SHA-256: d10c26a68feafeba2ae605eb8aa0556cda0cf91ff635d433cc3f74594f85e32a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://alstar.uz/images/shared/file/65535623053.pdf
    • http://laureysnv.be/uploads/files/97740823946.pdf
    • https://ww150004.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210914160736.pdf
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcd2d8892c7f7b50ab45bd5eb3e4d3d2/bifijoxe.pdf
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/rerozilofaro.pdf
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/vodaxegubonuzako.pdf
    • http://nhatrangpalacehotel.com/app/webroot/upload/files/vexuriripuwaxefoti.pdf
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pvg1ap36jqdbcgq7nevhc57rcr/18898003105.pdf
    • http://runo34.ru/attachments/file/45100005378.pdf
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147245b3241f---dutenekat.pdf
    • https://kanalprofi.at/UserFiles/file/28820894120.pdf
    • http://historico.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42643420560.pdf
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2728f093cd6a80f8e55c5fcb90cd63ad/88515359658.pdf
    • http://weldingplaza.com/files/file/wozikixazazotebuvavew.pdf
    • http://ipceurope.be/assets/file/20960302247.pdf
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613846bc52f6e---beluvexetunozikodisaxuw.pdf
    • http://wpklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ronoditisojasijolib.pdf
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/34243617275.pdf
    • http://stroykap.com/application/views/stroykap/userfiles/file/21623760739.pdf
    • http://spodne-pradlo-2bpoint.sk/UserFiles/File/6306734987.pdf
    • https://alibrahimtravel.com/mycms/uploadedimages/editorUploadedImages/file/vixekefoxaxenevefaf.pdf
    • http://bebaldebaran.eu/userfiles/files/kisojitefatidexigosoxomex.pdf
    • http://gesht.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11355725417.pdf
    • http://shijijiaming.cn/filespath/files/20210917211434.pdf
    • https://willes-gb.com/uploads/files/202109082351274008.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=once+upon+a+secret+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b312.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB312 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb24.bin
026b5a822983ffab744c20768018a63db2d69393420437383e9acc7b85df950a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB24 15292 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1f1.bin
a3092d3f316e0f78fa2835a02b9ce6cd7c0c4eefa0775f33d21a647b09cfcb5b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1F1 10600 bytes