Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 040afa9bfdd4e2de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:37:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 9f9501a0371fef704de6004d090be85b SHA-1: e604d6a85f229137a961a3c1de8fb2a245e01bce SHA-256: 040afa9bfdd4e2de506d183cb2ac4bbe948bf0c4cc72e6630daeff93bb8289f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/kunexidebepabaxisusas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/6071231668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b98a848ed9d---39612333491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evrenmentese.com/upload/ckfinder/files/92965902445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semihkerpiccilervesupersound.com/upload/file/dogoxulalesufemobuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a57aef1b9b0---gazodifagovozinugowofusoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicilyontable.it/userfiles/files/sagogufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6qg7b1u1h84flpsiebqs07rr74/5422238590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3dfb59128---kagetonagol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091350a5e692---siweninoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6fd3b33800---6187939692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68431d3d21e0a9cd12e7f23032e6caf3/zomubapezelik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geerhannutpourreussir.be/docs/upload/files/37564882827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfsu977rje3hinlmrtvra6aehl/pukuxonosasevuduwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/32537476078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b9065dffd---sirujonazodewatuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75200501592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079803faefa8---xowowetofizevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/67262779048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quaint-house.com/74053910974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/24297886787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gmla4o2ljm0qu1081jjacah6e4/13466490169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1migrqdgn8r289kdaduqt2a188/80255806362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=convert+photo+to+pdf+on+iphone+xPDF 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_off0000c42c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC42C 17692 bytes
SHA-256: 794359d48dfc1ec3bdf60ceda180f6e5ec8fa2c8eb072584549d8de529ebc8e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f24b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF24B 10416 bytes
SHA-256: cf252255a964646591b2f0af40518a9d4fc394a398bc2bfd68e882a8ff4b63a5
font_02_sfnt_off000109d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1