Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e10fbb1caaae29b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-08-10 01:24:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ed46830d63e5a965fac9e1203d2a98c6 SHA-1: 45a3612c9fbc0a882c90a66d8a29d9e5281627da SHA-256: e10fbb1caaae29b6cf0009128638ec7692b2845f5d1d190bfa457124ed90300b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed due to obfuscation, likely facilitates these redirects or further malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://huefpdf.org/upload/file/32013552096.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/75497533517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/59207548572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cb3c222c0---36473950243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stemcellhairclinic.com/files/files/85827830405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobhendrix-law.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lenowovovijesejesikedaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4d95cc79b3---79720462960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04c8e13f5a---70835671910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvg.asia/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/fuwawaruluwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreanhotpot.com/uploads/files/gogamuwijule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/tefob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/furuxerag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/ruruboduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210726_85CC8816CD26E22B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/948989a1sl4ms2pbe73ab3qu9o/48840362023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17515a0aadffa6fbdd617b2f856418e8/61773152361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3be4b1c9ddd9412dcc5a51a26896b6eb/16073513281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadapremiumlubes.com/survey/userfiles/files/85128566448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reedxtrainternational.com/uploads/pages/file/foduxisobufovijopusar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cab0ab48752---bomoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6eaff7ffbf---kapal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23326803710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51528f6515c7b56c5180a13ba14adfc1/sefosolanavasinewedowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75effd1b328ff81df1b0bb2dea8fabe3/35723884723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what%27s+the+best+weapon+in+dark+souls+remasteredPDF link annotation
    • 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_off000113ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113EA 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 39b2d9c94dd009cbd66cf28081114a1180d55f424e2aa3a2eae8c49558e43ab8
font_01_sfnt_off00012d79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001458b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1458B 19388 bytes
SHA-256: 9de62b30ca60ad5fff80ff6288a9d2b8eed89ebf64b33f44b7b83dab9490f4d1