Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 401b75d71cfd9a1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.9 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:54:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b6da076160fc69565add2e312d69c6d6 SHA-1: 25d2b1745b4c76ece3ff700742272a5d0abf8222 SHA-256: 401b75d71cfd9a1eb0a86ad78f640d1eec9a70c13a62972d567785b90e9fa25f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to WordPress sites utilizing the Formcraft plugin for file uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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 http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b229d619d4---wezanovixikudowi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c65d7ee02---44914600123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eed426b0a6---15353251342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/res6k1od9dshl40ihm95nesii1/tapevokefumosegafati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79f179acff---vaxodiwijolorasupelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b28bac4d6---28025647664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608700974595a---6130179356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d6d46f909213931f86029963ccbb506/dosadogexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaihoanghung.com/upload/files/34668880099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonntag-immobilien.lu/userfiles/files/64901408490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulg4tuuttb0pihoetjunhagm5u/25752224055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c5645f04f---2210177414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/vedidame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/xesazobivasuraponod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2303290dd---25113161588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/71227973533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608753cfb7f06---80619974291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c364e9a4358---20387849547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayihoki99.com/contents//files/zibidozipifamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zh-huaxun.com/uploadfiles/files/5182995907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dd0e2c65beca440b440c2bbdc06fd54/xotiwolasusuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.org/upload/files/levojegifugigaxenunexar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=linux+objective+questions+and+answers+pdfPDF 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_off000127dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127DD 18720 bytes
SHA-256: 8ab666a7e011c45f004abd1ac1a5aaba8607943551a9b73db216a2ab8041b172
font_01_sfnt_off000159a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159A9 11296 bytes
SHA-256: c903b249db629ff4a22889326ff67cc471f8e4b628d5d3af499e81239dbec2bc
font_02_sfnt_off000173fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x173FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00018c0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18C0F 16340 bytes
SHA-256: 88a5f3ad9079b2340172ecd64f1cd79ba1ad1753eb2b73e58de10c5a7be67d15