Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5e10427d7e7b157…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:14:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: bda5c5ba2015621eac7283efb5fbc1de SHA-1: d3de7c2ab6fba40e620516e4888818ce58fb2752 SHA-256: d5e10427d7e7b1578df88749e8bf06624eba06dd8a785237d91cb5862b150e0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the PDF structure points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=getting+over+it+unblocked+at+school PDF link annotation
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bdb872369a---josubutetujinolememutug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ptt758usrpcth7r1bdaad3l7hl/vevitifisiwegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df366a0920e42babed51a154045c6b75/polufujimuwoven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12a3bbc0d62d4787a7f59732dce946ec/22606694630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce00d4f425---ketagikitisojaduli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tdp9or7c9990fec6m46ditt951/64252446921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deforma.it/userfiles/files/nisedudakufavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/54771830762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winecellarkeeper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/metigegalodunutujilaseti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/dexavekuwapup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/71948429443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chochosanencino.com/uploads/files/31672096318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f18dd22d9db4029f770d3b94afc3f786/68446569550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/turudovuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32b1b3d616---sugalejafarega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210624124859_0oy3ok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094e0217691f---levinefivotanipibojeravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765db27ef4d---kevalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121c2256257d---23127958459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4c3206771---25965228851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4e80c818b---tuletavol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082df5b311a0---relem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stdtekstil.com/upload/ckfinder/files/35296514941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakadentalcare.com/contents//files/giwixo.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_off0000d315.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD315 11088 bytes
SHA-256: c9ee46477988018cbccf6facf9bcbfd115db172eb7b3e9346d43eafdcaeaa389
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB3 18212 bytes
SHA-256: c3ce11bf6ceb559dd077ea25e9526959f81f6f303c87ab78a29b96de13a60a66
font_02_sfnt_off00011c46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1