Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 040a1cec80fe37b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-07-31 13:12:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 780b6d7bde31d75b80590a72b777a1bc SHA-1: 32bdad8a86a58a1f7f768db0582abbbca296cab2 SHA-256: 040a1cec80fe37b60fa09cbf47919be84dec68379756bc05af3885e615f13e93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 http://lhdrum.com/User_File/UpFile/file/20210730104127_Nzk1MjEyMTY4MDQ=.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gobelsprofil.com/upload/files/35410413299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c83b42bcc3---61051989911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/77199431299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medosojewellery.com/userfiles/files/xowuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkalc.com/userfiles/puxetapal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210727_CC445E2548B5DE9A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ebe9d57dd8ef0deac1e253c0628a95a/80278467632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c999fdd8262---18458622293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d938a6908e3---solofepabitew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4bf9ea4a76---91303194474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/lugokofuwupemafovavazivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/zugegifozukegexal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0eb8dbf39---xanevegobavenoregome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinhwajudan.com/userData/board/file/37006366719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b62db3ac1670f17d5d434f5380a4b1df/643010004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brunsfamilyreunion.org/clients/e/e7/e70b0594429ddd28dfd4dd2f61c76e80/File/werogazuripopuzejusezudiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links-europe.com/xolaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/todametudilasunosug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/zogifomaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yeosung21.or.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1626123061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b04d22f28b23d9875518a901564f961/31024889120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082805b99062---jarogerotubivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/87561893187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c72a2559e7---35478527474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210626001105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/86193215387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/bojenitexipiseki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+start+a+shoemaking+businessPDF 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_off000100e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E0 17668 bytes
SHA-256: 49f38877f8c702f98618c1022e3613b81774a9ec570a4599f323923136d7b9c9
font_01_sfnt_off00012f35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F35 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 762e2883223cc6f62f8a6c4a03e0e5f34df4351c3cb3c3ee17f072850342a111
font_02_sfnt_off00014863.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14863 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1