Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e10ec2c1f98fcd1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-08-30 12:15:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9bb4c3d118487d2c217cd9a9e9110af5 SHA-1: 3649a4a31e38354896db30d9226183b24540645b SHA-256: e10ec2c1f98fcd1db6aae0016a98a68c1f22715ca16e8712ca4518f93bd418ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true purpose but reinforcing the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adventures+in+consciousness+jane+roberts+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c38e4abfb---2937977559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dfadc69605---82235599542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/21667785040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aea2078c12---ratadimowuvewubebabiroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a13jesg2hrvq8ulr7r7l619q6/23971939369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608429f223c2f---faxowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c01448f14f7e7a6f536730efae5c2f5/36755087089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f39a244763---23608778633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ffac0441036316baff2780ec147441e/zezavisolezijeliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poxikiranemimofef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e209de1d9b---12094049844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9716827009adb53a5ffc68ccc00b8ef/nezinesakibimedigoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb8ee59407d---vopatifibukijum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyansdugunsalonu.com/userfiles/files/40078719091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608a542e15b71---jurupopupapaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staropolski.net/Upload/file/54784694452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnationwide.com/userfiles/files/50466141659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26ca23d89a---46229720946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/83537692254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/27885506712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-tct.ru/userfiles/file/95175955328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaluzaktanegitim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/54589642630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bf1e55396---85933725556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c846c6eb88bf556d4963ef8a7cb99b91/zakazivago.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_off0000d573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD573 17524 bytes
SHA-256: a3c2a5749468961562b56304a3de1f0c5f8c1b9296c6af6e2c768d7b226d9cc3
font_01_sfnt_off00010249.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10249 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 9a2dff917638e68f6adba07ca908dcf860b0ea3671b1d203b239fd5d0da255fe
font_02_sfnt_off00011bbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1