Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 240e610f4bcc14ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-26 15:50:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: f8b195308f2363ae4d7f50cf48c2ddf8 SHA-1: 0a4bfe9c6a63ec015d3383d76148feca0828adbc SHA-256: 240e610f4bcc14adf19f475b2d461ffe922818eaff56154cd01937c6c37324b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and is identified as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+note+9+pro+latest+software+update PDF link annotation
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/fuxobunisunepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/92300499987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zensushidanapoint.com/uploads/files/9027287846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/bafitifobobumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f199d29ae091de6438abeca9c7291480/1792990796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/34684174253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/sovemupawamoridesasuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yunnanyingxiang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22364179113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210909163120956056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gea99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30269593545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediljolli.com/userfiles/files/vevabididavanip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mydreamtuscanwedding.com/editor_up/tubuperozuxanulamilorofor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132046fdc5da---keligesutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b71e6aa5de---zizafedimexizisumonilelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lscapital.it/images/file/birodud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mclarenquartz.in/ci/userfiles/files/fedibifubokevako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/87736812124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medob.org/SITE/files/editor/file/defegebitubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f5c85115d---wapowafitivevofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drddvichitra.com/userfiles/file/14899820581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangiyaparishadtoronto.ca/bpt/editor/uploadfiles/74284954053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ffa5dca307edb627fd17cd6e7083561/51782069984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/61865518568.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_off0000b4ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4EC 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 41ff7c61009de06623f067e382e055ad2a5529eea1dd364acddcda5017a59c45
font_01_sfnt_off0000cec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e6d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D2 18080 bytes
SHA-256: ad4b0eb4750d924863fd091fbbd6ca69202e96a5f3aeef6f2df731062ab1ec86

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