Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 240f6ae9caf3b468…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:42:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 92e6baa1e06ce0b3339e2965a896d03c SHA-1: 5cac4f682f516633b7964f2b1dc8944a17abebff SHA-256: 240f6ae9caf3b468455907cbc51807e22c68400aa91964ff82ad9e44ce1a08db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are typical of phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cloudy+day+poem+theme PDF link annotation
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57849414b022e8c4637ff88290e509c6/wemegofanor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799c6199a42---loxilujovomitabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab96c5b2248---98542743459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5561acf7fd---vivobisakepopufedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607131fc98aad---72445779439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26e7f1ad008c84b982623e1dbd73a1ee/96907424358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b19a52885dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/guzube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dgqd8llmjh7pc8vg8hgtblv66/56729176584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/xenovikiliwesalelofagimig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd6e694483a---24704322139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/kawubekizaxajazezis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/038bf55c15e2cf6cfadfbdf8926a3230/20653033578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68s201s718m42m8igo41hui9il/lower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/10650005099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/tusatidubuxalopimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f872489a9b322d3a5b4a5aee4afde6dc/xijixuxabibegekipozozabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e402cdde534dec98aaed8fb6cb31feb/4519023003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f204f193f8bef5aed44e327740c0324/rujuwokokoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75ac27338c0007577d7c105d4621a598/xejisugoligoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fa754b94147485e348e87ecdf238458/86549771966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c55f007fc---64852363059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d18ea3eaf5e---jajukunidisexosokapiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/pimemidojixedikelij.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_off0000f4f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F1 10440 bytes
SHA-256: b0e71263a32187570a967acf84baf35aad9e3dcfc398db60c2b4fa83e08fa74f
font_01_sfnt_off00010cad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CAD 17592 bytes
SHA-256: 8494ee8f49362cf6291471fa63579ad08375878b274adcdb44c73a210008488b
font_02_sfnt_off00013ab3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1