Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 040c73889ca25b87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:41:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: bae5716c24adae505255c2c06cfd8725 SHA-1: 3c7b1d48422f0daccfeee545dca7ad9554006bb7 SHA-256: 040c73889ca25b871ae95e92fea087fc380d7a04ed824a2cd4be38c9f386a878
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other potentially malicious sites. The presence of these links suggests the document is designed to lure users to external resources, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2018+group+2+mains+question+paper PDF link annotation
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aa122856f2b39c5005907beb9d16ee3/45239376118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/53859352212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareu.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sekitofitiwavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970lions.com/clients/5/57/57eb30a5877ba0c7834658d164206012/File/4835791166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/9016547497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we2meeting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/sifejimororor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivescuolaguida.it/userfiles/files/1263517890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126d00a49b9e---22133300709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/fasamurunumevamij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aff0a46c7cb7bc53d19b9b96810a92f7/36727624814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numberonerevolution.it/file/31188802388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3fd6968d58---paziteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1rse2h37c5iek5u6fupcsde6r1/bikawisoroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/fipijozosilewot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/58676657220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb88fd680eb---57765573560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ra7a7p-h3ba7.com/contents/files/kokotunibowesumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/ruvikaginivudabivagal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812a24995f6---xamif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krassimirtaskov.com/userfiles/files/98391912481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sasomuxazegelebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87232969727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3fda4c5cfa---10975565588.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_off0000d88d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD88D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f09f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF09F 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 0d92a1fa381e7d441c6876308e43a45559d26585c8a8bcade606f9e26d1bb8b9
font_02_sfnt_off00011ede.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDE 11200 bytes
SHA-256: c64f469872e3b220b249090a94569404c87a3f3cebf7ae61cef5c110e1b65ac6