Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 400392d36a454c4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 18:16:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4dacd93fac11a3b48679294ae126dd27 SHA-1: a5200301396ff18996f2d676bdef6ff351857653 SHA-256: 400392d36a454c4b70bc95a7a808aca3c0155308e0326b7872861cc04c00262b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised or malicious websites. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+send+a+voice+memo+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://gpp300.fr/userfiles/file/58335839615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubesubscribers.com/ci/userfiles/files/67943442388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.moxiclear.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25222400008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d2c769d4fd---3039578986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92270829106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/210913183734148502fhdaew5s2pat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42tpucphurjma3q2nbi6705r21/xeratotupuzub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanglong.vn-greenenergy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70089243225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/buderijusezoxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145378fe6e92---xisedososaposupilopan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaskunstcentrum.nl/images/file/96013768688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonellascarpittadesigner.it/userfiles/files/kubuleloboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luckysurface.itweald.com/uploads/files/6144b8ecd21ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrkanuch.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/93911529385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/sipefuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d47dea8a7---kimitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joeun-it.com/userData/board/file/96508063644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3836154f9dccefbd9beed409ad29886f/zamudosurimiwakosidiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68226789319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avflash.nl/upload/files/nanowebizixisazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seger.cz/userfiles/file/sofovuviwalitozupenudub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaidongdo3s.com/images/files/39027180109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/zinusironigiwebimux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133193b07cee---dukokaneka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416237722ce---73127489203.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_off0000e826.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE826 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001003d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1003D 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 5c2fd2faa9d1c7385ed1d4692b4a82c461c287e8bad375ec5d762374eff0ad67
font_02_sfnt_off00011890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11890 17428 bytes
SHA-256: cb2d04a272a8fcd24395f6a88caf88b36216c0096db5a51d0ac39334c590258a