Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e10559aecd78e980…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 19:43:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e796a7b423f4717848ef500c2a19efe3 SHA-1: ab3c77af7233fb06571618f9f34f0645789ba8bf SHA-256: e10559aecd78e98059c2878b3f75c1501c0db6b889655db94085b44e39fef378
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure, likely leveraging T1059.007 (JavaScript) for exploitation or redirection, and T1566.001 (Spearphishing Attachment) as the likely initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+cell+standby+battery+drain
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143c6bd918e5---nazuvuwubivisavare.pdf
    • http://kuryakyn.ru/userfiles/file/magoxizezojafad.pdf
    • https://www.assofmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31511159077.pdf
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/58004589878.pdf
    • https://istanajp.com/contents/files/51961506580.pdf
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/povizesuwajapiperig.pdf
    • http://adacu.org/userfiles/file/20210919015830.pdf
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161452f6f78f2f---94361468781.pdf
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/winebunagavube.pdf
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88410403015.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b12f48cee2e891826eed18edca1dde6/jokupirukupe.pdf
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/45808941476.pdf
    • http://spartaksedlec.cz/spartaksedlec/userfiles/file/67577884144.pdf
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rozilurizusetede.pdf
    • http://ctm.it/userfiles/file/6435575365.pdf
    • https://gdaniec.com/upload/files/kugobidifo.pdf
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/27203284141.pdf
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/majefewapowevugos.pdf
    • https://hexema.com/FCKeditor/file/87898886079.pdf
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e9c6790a8---36069721206.pdf
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbdhskr1shbs5h6msflhs0hqh5/gamawofo.pdf
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_59EC10DFEF1F460B.pdf
    • http://reginahajo.hu/_user/file/kusulifitafomidun.pdf
    • http://373113.linker.tw/files/24155488353.pdf
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/28762383634.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_off0000d5ff.bin
7dda570cbde881bff8759e068d3bdb5098946ecfa8270956fa85437e9b5e018b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5FF 17844 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000104b8.bin
6bbe0bbad733a74d027fe140150c86d2a0d522db4ab084649f4a2eb02ab3e6bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B8 10600 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d1e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D1E 16792 bytes