Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 040a6e7b2f21b09d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:32:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 28460e67c63623a0e658284f16c74e01 SHA-1: b0e6923c5680bfc498b14e38070be69e134c9345 SHA-256: 040a6e7b2f21b09d14538dbabb254e47c54614a36c706924451d7b5169f12c89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 https://hobbypet.cz/files/file/batojedesewedosuxixawab.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba71d4a55ac---nopuduseviwugejimupedip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fc562ef394b56258d0a8509690b3275/12749168498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24033af4bf---57931614824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104747599802---83307328288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deeringbayrealestate.com/userfiles/files/lonitulogogazuvasitaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laserinnsbruck.com/static/vadovapogupowebivag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/86617048000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/91383675042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d3cd29d9c---tuvavixogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cr9mg2hi26b5kb9es638v4l43/69050411532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210806105010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb300ca1f5---37941740645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/23798456895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/64684109703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/62806529477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06c037dc62f469bc537a64b790af74fb/sujatexozezuxulufotajudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/67108015957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/pesirawexisarigipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33591052287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biurod9.pl/public/userfiles/file/kobuzudabopudiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/88690778400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evaemlak.com/userfiles/file///setowogafes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2815b1b13f8c704c4865bf8669354933/6592349556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/monuvudiwilikojedegigigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=business+law+books+free+download+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_off000113f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F6 18420 bytes
SHA-256: 353149bf42e50298a37ab8cf44b0fcc9efa504b5083b281c6a2051449d561356
font_01_sfnt_off0001437a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1437A 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 5666cc670d136c19d0271d60ef84d91550f479d74fe937392d77d89bb040eb4c
font_02_sfnt_off00015c93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1