Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 040887a4924eb426…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:54:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d928c3aa652600be045e8277f00253fa SHA-1: 36a1ef7735983aa18b29bc188347db4c0f87c5e1 SHA-256: 040887a4924eb426f022ce4a40b6707c2dc0512e51e5d4b27a239c3a575025bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=texas+law+for+child+riding+in+front+seat PDF link annotation
    • http://bon-mar.com/fck_user_files/file/galununaxesojumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/20747869507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexopiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/2356396009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/dafoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heyratacademy.ir/file/87916979949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-tos.com/userData/board/file/vapurovan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/8525947884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4c4787357---pulifozufudefisonuvaduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuemeism.com/uploadfiles/files/77092000909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/1893241047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cra3cli2kv8f5ng61he8r90ccu/dexodojepupuzufufakuxituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szwygs.com/upload/fukijebikujulanur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6n8kc8eneg330m9kj55b0e2mm/gofonurekuxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/44441068096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogallerani.it/userfiles/files/83732071076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///49476093749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.com/eurostyl/photos/file/bevoxofuzenobabolet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1080c1210a425a789aba813c0cfe0505/18852580310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5769c0ab87383e4aaa1e699173b400eb/gajowutagadasarifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/20582842129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/lazijenogozava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea720283d0---dibolulopag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bc7bfdbee3dc0a0427da65c1127ab48/mosuvexasezoj.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_off0000e7a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A6 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 33d665c87a2eb85735e23ff4b1defa9b77aa9fd18d1e81c287b2169845e15546
font_01_sfnt_off000100bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118CF 18160 bytes
SHA-256: 7783bd0fe5c4b0e32fdd8fedc468675a92ccbc650d3a6fbc92062242a1b7c7ee