Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0140b6c7390cba5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-20 06:07:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7948c173e1478da48acbc18fb19b5720 SHA-1: 91dd122bec126fc06f369b0b0f4c0c4c9be1b282 SHA-256: 0140b6c7390cba5eb329319cda5f3a4d495cfa890cc6f9269c9b1527ca38bf4a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eba0404b4cbd883474d11922f1b55dd7/63172016739.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://carnavaldemarbella.com/Senegal_5/Content/files/userfiles/file/jaluwuremonimisajoxolubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d9d9deb51---60046293650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dd5216c257bb3a1d22a3eacabce8c0a/81575938070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromavials.com/d/files/jusezokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853ecd295da---84473983941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariopresto.pl/userfiles/file/61649290218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmeds.us/userfiles/file/87599969128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/wenokivesezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingdiy.cc/uploadfiles/files/20210705_114304_9043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/93007494137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e793db0eddd---womidinafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/nifuvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenroots.org/clients/19739/File/denewiderejefosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609149cfef7df---bojifubinegikoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesartsdansmonjardin.com/userfiles/file/20210708002853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/26182686950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/darakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcb8623b71---tuxidifepabezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=guardian+of+the+galaxy+2+musicPDF 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_off0000ed5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED5A 19016 bytes
SHA-256: 8d8e0030063859ee8a19378a2567b02ddd3aa299608cf3bee627e3e2c611ad48
font_01_sfnt_off00011de8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000135ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135FF 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 77da31bcc5d52ee8002440fcfd32458f4ad5c6fda6debfc696526e6d795b17c8