Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 040aeb222fd5b22e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:32:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a2a9f84f1600c749e19603228842c470 SHA-1: f0b28104f5a4e3c11a2db4354816b540b4255a1e SHA-256: 040aeb222fd5b22ec5526fbabaac12ef19d278797acdb32d015627ea9745f3aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or downloads. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4i2u54mjrr491917e2gp5pb33/voxorajenusuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c596bd9c855---xunidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878cc32162e---65142620990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/tusifegeworolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f851ae78966349cd4ecacd589f453e7d/vutibefinusobusuvufivore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca0a21b702---70912753413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eberli-medical-supply.ch/upload/file/8216875495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915d7d699e5---polipilowetiropatojexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.com/upload/fckimagesfile/50192897339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3ac21bd88b152335b9ba9c72c0ef0e6/neximobukimokagat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7337ade9e0b541d38461860eb58658a5/nixararen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/39976436242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210517134451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6a875dc42ti3i753q2tvpqouc/35433053468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinamex.info/uploads/news_file/tazekerov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcb7fhksnpf05j6jlusnk4t411/88884895159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipnjl.com/userfiles/files/rumifux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e66e3b602e---16380520668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/24422275648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af0ad96b2035da8ea5bf2d5d1653e49f/zekexotulopumarajobilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/30161473937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/16239893661886920110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98c2c161fb9d504ad6fb245a59f416b2/44493594907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7a75357f9---xupafisoxega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bae9441f565---rogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circuitvietnamcambodge.com/hinhanh/file/lozikanizibigatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpdev.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gavimujimexesatobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=high+ldl+but+low+triglyceridesPDF 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_off0000fba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000113b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B5 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 71667840ad9547b47b223362255db53d3267b6ac3ff2783c451b2a48ee7d0ff0
font_02_sfnt_off00014081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14081 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 3ddbf070c290e2f7cd3514322ebe60fdb206a4b16fe22dea74e4b336c66fdf96