Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40028ac3aac8296b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 19:54:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: d2ddac30ea2eb4e74d27f70e79acc174 SHA-1: b40360aca672c065940fba6921ea3ae514965673 SHA-256: 40028ac3aac8296b6c8d65ec927367eacc67f6846d238a05353e6a8bcbc6d651
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to trick users into visiting potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613450eab13f0---midutibudixanukudedev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://csc-0411.com/userfiles/file/20210912062509_vvap90.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenmallbiotech.com/upload/files/tumap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wappa.com.au/siteadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zumelirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unovosti.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42010641087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robindayne.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34413072981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bedrucken24.de/userfiles/file/nijasejotixumuvujoret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613933be796ef---xupogak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtamdaykem.vn/Images_upload/files/nibemiviwomezukerim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9913be67cf59f28e1999655d2bc036fe/56877010063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strategie-forex.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bewojewotitudojulinasoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palmdale.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/14045886664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fan-consultants.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rulopevukazikuwuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/38134023127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koutingchina.com/upload/files/10427544414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptindia.com/newsimages/file///tibebotubaranosowevepiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potya.com/34933030763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130df8a64172---besedifajogokalapejizixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parlagame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pukisawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturestuff.nl/siteimages/file/17471480167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wgadget.com/file_media/file_image/file/nemepejijasiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f1e46e5006c706d1fc5b2a2aa42c589/35856000681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettogherardi.eu/userfiles/files/68124931569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d12d1e5b73fee9ca433b9dccd1b1a636/41378702398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarant0g3l-turbo-h1t.com/contents/files/wusofegimimewupige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+play+apks+on+pcPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ece3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE3 18296 bytes
SHA-256: f7f37ee417f408bfa54bb52a61ec286cfdf222141a958dcb5a34b09ea525907e
font_01_sfnt_off00011c79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013490.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13490 10328 bytes
SHA-256: dc1cc6281d5da415e3f9ec3579e3bf35d58f0d7cf40e128dfec2d241c7956a0d