Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 040fd5874a691387…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:47:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a146ec368564848e52261b73f516fba5 SHA-1: f1a9cca9d411c92c44f3129b7dba8abe46c68749 SHA-256: 040fd5874a691387400aba529d0d5070f3f6768734133e4d6dc02891aa38a1de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to domains that are either compromised or appear to be disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to external sites, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manuali+scrittura+creativa+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bugupigosuliju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandarinkinesiska.com/userfiles/file/88135943618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/daxarukotozuzidagirise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985b642c385---kulexijuxiniper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/24580789249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/88680430429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.me/upload/file/11512197969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c57856e851a76b3e5880e3c9332c6e41/67512336146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/89216127972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbis.pl/files/file/bobukitogame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13ca2eedd92870b605162d42096b908f/15153592552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facyt.com.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fatuxirukaridigevifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/korokuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d2e67cf13c---49408852523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hh2iq65c0ebjbje2cus33mrds1/dizem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/61259798731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/53443127073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d834c229fc1b47ea48f603de6ee4adb/wigunavasediriwovijokoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toxoxokijagaxetepobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/nunazuzowaxutoxozosafogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db0e098dc9---36667642800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/fitidexubibagubuvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19bc4ba606d3fb1c966da033ef6f327b/18794063456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savaksangida.com/resimler/files/mopixis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/044efa6884e77b271cd9a0e57182ddcc/devakinizodexepun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/zumubakoxilewunamereresoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j5bfv7l1fm3sgkujjrs7bj7l85/kegena.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_off0000dfeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7FD 17336 bytes
SHA-256: b36ad06052a4131d085b1534037da453e7cec51b40198b1049c3c70e7612568a
font_02_sfnt_off00012520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12520 10652 bytes
SHA-256: a39fd0d88f34f6afad9e0dc850b39eedcf781aad2780232b58b17a12adc8a836