Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a40d27efa6587c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 03:24:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f7674f9223ca415fe41ff4d58a7a974a SHA-1: b0bf739969cba5539a8fbf93bcd95446fbd325f0 SHA-256: 2a40d27efa6587c74669244c60186aaec0e03536e745887978d979c59dd07bcc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable binary data, but the heuristics and URL analysis reveal a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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 http://ipublicity.cz/data/file/midesiredoxubufadidober.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://namlongadc.vn/uploads/news/files/67241555457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakatka.com/files/file/17916206686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d5dfb4174---36333278455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/21533596390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ngov3vum5avi7kj4jkncgt8cv0/24451679170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/042b0ca53a7d4beebad4c482b452ed48/razumijunivisibixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/xonebadonefedid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shihtzufurbabies.net/clients/d/d3/d383cf0c90cf2d2391705d5438694b4c/File/3977616203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t56jb9na6ap0qvl6jhhoi3uiad/77252564782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/8938390842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dbmddbtfb1s5ef2bq3u0qm1v6/1642656069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/9505429340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/mukowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/woxizogovemijux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/fapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/60140268272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38093569a139bb02ab75e02bd1681fc5/waxegumizonamulumaveji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869f22e84d2---tepulisipuwegudutejitaxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/48129210237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607072e6a59e7---34638531242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8151b81a3---84748345849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/gatemebezosawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=lesson+plan+evaluation+samplePDF link annotation
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001041f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1041F 16800 bytes
SHA-256: aa75c26615712091c96acb7084f57183ec91751c3157c57265f76d6dad42f292
font_02_sfnt_off00012fd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FD8 10436 bytes
SHA-256: b10e74dc53d53b058f8f1fb24d3589834febbe72e1b47e318017c7869ed17dd7
font_03_sfnt_off0001477b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1477B 2036 bytes
SHA-256: bc0cc09167de0429bd3ec30f7a17ea73fcb65f860f03697cb9bf572ad3cb724e