Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2040bd246db2d12a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.4 KB Created: 2021-10-08 01:27:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2b8fa3c4b69ea8c87c93d21af52fbdac SHA-1: 782235aa007d5f5edbe618d3bddcfb962538f401 SHA-256: 2040bd246db2d12ad84d4e3c5b4876966c25d93ca5e90a2e95516f3e38bd778d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, so the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+does+compact+fluorescent+lamp+operates PDF link annotation
    • https://kermanrooz.com/img/files/99642181247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/41679640258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://one9five.com/userfiles/files/puzajimanufixuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zsdbiopharm.com/upload/files/gufivivanora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionasset.net/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20211001110617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomtco.com/technical/files/file/26316324050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synthecinter.com/userfiles/files/ropera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351f286f9f7---zurusakezezabus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c2d4e34b31---51687197058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irvine.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/86881213435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e7476369b98e8d088eac55f9a3e487e/33294991335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k3projekt.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/25671269054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/kisup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72122152145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volandovia.it/public/fileeditor/file/kidatujubebidudoresuxurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handsonmontessoripk.com/userfiles/files/92040226643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87cff22ba4b913208f336f590825ec0d/vitezuseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igraonica.me/userfiles/file/6788160268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/fegerudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilafafafa.com/shopadmin/upload/files/zuxogiwonamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gimnazjum-krasiczyn.pl/img/userfiles/file/16024396031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0975811252cool.linker.tw/files/34151231750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/96819060149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ed4a56b847---jijakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ryokanclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_65E2D46E8ED98F10.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_off00013776.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13776 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014f8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F8D 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 5385ba730943b33a3d0563ae1274993d96a9552d5eb96e6ca7a07ca83233aea4
font_02_sfnt_off000168ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x168AD 19896 bytes
SHA-256: 18096fd7eab1e81707079dd565bc066eb149a44e6490c18d9f35034ba757e216