Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e10029eb559f0f05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-08-09 09:44:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3a28aba5cb00e89d7edab8e665443212 SHA-1: 0793c12ce0b01aa8491fc3f4b2f4f206ca365529 SHA-256: e10029eb559f0f05305bf88b77dc7e9a78c7c02dd60b9a3e782f911b790526ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, likely used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, aligning with the characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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 http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/fonojafi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1vmsb71naln3brm2h9v1r0777/rawefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/22214781334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ca5e9fd99---bulukunowoxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fsj5fjneaf600q8acsqc9929ea/vuxoxarusara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/btpjm7p2veubj46s6cuomsdub4/begekasogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopadive.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35316670775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camionespanamericana.com/userfiles/file/29602362736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/261g57fap8l7pl9up78g0cm9ev/62550961710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ar1kham6utv1g0rgivq28nhv2t/dezupetapebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobmeetin.com/media/galleries/files/tudovemamoboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cb74705ea90357ddf59d219bc0ce090/14601277158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882ed77829d---xezisigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lq8nq5p4f1lsfln1h6roefde0p/60120029326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c67d50c8c70e3771fdab88295f834a64/kekupogiremim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/40291267204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae011c470fd---4336315105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/zobotijefuwitepex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864ea3ca9de---dufam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fffaaf361e0---mogatifelubolilega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/lexovibugipowemaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b81747c34ac1a1807ab2a6112d4d6d31/50080191566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/tigulujexekerarawepizekaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6nqk0lej8c9uue8v0lue9v370/22191829235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=schumacher+car+battery+charger+instructionsPDF link annotation
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/vamotobuxamiwivowujo.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_off0000db64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f37b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF37B 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 71ef8a43d8eadcf3509084e5e58ef621bba6381ec316875c03e32dc667dd6414
font_02_sfnt_off00010d16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D16 16572 bytes
SHA-256: 772f293eb1ce65c46081807f15a75a84d13932a74b36f9532764b7a14fa73a58