Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40305e9d6d2fa62e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 14:14:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 90dc3a99b98eb8dca30b8d52fd7f8cba SHA-1: 16b00859dbf4bb8d208c29dabcbce1d713e04b27 SHA-256: 40305e9d6d2fa62ef728cd644f6018be10ce3f003c5ecc39fca152d40ce8289a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior, indicating the document's purpose is to redirect users to external, potentially malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=voice+name+ringtone+maker PDF link annotation
    • https://walnutcreekguide.com/wysiwygfiles/file/2500480910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etabetasurvey.com/userfiles/files/bepiroronawijapemipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentappli.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/phpimage/phpimage/upload/images/file/zituwemob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galerie45.com/userfiles/file/90311153429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fa581484c9---jimumim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61987461184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeraldcovepartners.com/_data/images/file/bawopesefunopepekexuwatus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/nupadazurepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saveondealz.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/66834775288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hram-uspeniya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87757525347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trongtrucsolution.com/uploads/files/tirululujevevedaduvativ.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidwoodmachine.com/d/files/88960948698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-pluset.com/userfiles/51839756324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wolfgang-photography.com/userfiles/files/80702569940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13405ac9f01ee8f4d25f77668b725a15/66760601733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.com/userfiles/files/9519461227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/74073355095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7306819532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://multimetrics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xerijuzegevete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocminhcnc.com/demo_thietbimay_24_7/upload/files/sutetuzifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/najakedomuvisugapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardens-spa.com/user_pict/file/wekojopekigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91641327468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents/files/tovewafujaxaporuxusafugiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/87022846505.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_off0000b878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB878 10420 bytes
SHA-256: f14c7f5ce368f60a4253363478a36df9c821094f57a8de2791b221029dc4bfe5
font_01_sfnt_off0000d020.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD020 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e832.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE832 16296 bytes
SHA-256: 1801491ebee86964a8631ee2783993d9d42ef802ffb20d0d71bbc13fe352c6de