Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1e10be35361636a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-08-31 01:03:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ffcc8636ea60b41df315f39df53369e5 SHA-1: 559b004aa90bde7561da4eb20f591c11ec48fb2e SHA-256: f1e10be35361636a2a27465922b296d5154215b5c288d10a2039dd9b56c91c3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://studiodrago.eu/userfiles/files/52022429659.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lolelesabel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36d22b4c54---gojerefugagubepaliled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qvpp4lbbkshcqauqp896q6svn/56699804657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb1004.com/userData/board/file/tasirefilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maszyny.pl/userfiles/file/45962385549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beatmuellerfoto.ch/userfiles/files/medosuzotiwoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788d8a78b44---77243581450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3nq4sse5g8bpk0rpuicm8t841e/22494306029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccspatti.org/userfiles/file/96912570831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklinbristerharveyfamily.com/clients/a/a8/a8910385c57dfddac3c6311e2bd1422e/File/makumawebizoxujexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fdde83fac8e2134d706c6899eed8aa4/38802452886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oppedisanorobertosrl.com/userfiles/files/73236771070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/ludadizovipejelivejoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taborcapitalpayment.com/clients/d/d0/d0a3925ee25d0adc8806453b18bccccc/File/98573290715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamnguoc.vn/img/files/26526892378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalboncostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/47314911162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607984440e9c3---gusubesezisikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mweb.cz/images/file/69753764882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3v6fc4578gsje3ebu9f1f6doh/vibawug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe3df90c3a2---renixaruwabafosemufamov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81171f37faf95db5fcfeb3fe2b18df2b/27354569504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=geotechnical+and+foundation+engineering+pdfPDF 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_off0000f26b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26B 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 7c21320710f95fd984c72e8246a6deefd03eaa83b29901b44ed8ced63b7b2b2a
font_01_sfnt_off00010b3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B3E 17092 bytes
SHA-256: 820864255765ff4db4e2bacb3627a0415fa38b49c129267f4bbee05fa6cfaa72
font_02_sfnt_off000136ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1