Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40668e2260b4dbf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-06-20 04:50:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 834348887ed754c215b386fc55c4c540 SHA-1: 7ef15381db5dc32c5ec2d7dee0bedbbe4e64cc61 SHA-256: 40668e2260b4dbf7e7a7fedfdb5c482c64bbb7c8a85e3d7f9028a8b2eab67e32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file is detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content disguised as a software keygen. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/vumesuzexuwabuziwa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tmtteks.com/files/26890931737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606df60362b34---dixodipajagalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f2fe98541db623144cad15e2cc29d88/soxejesamulex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb0d586109---43908985902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/96763871133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqqdo3r95ashpift2qpev7amk7/71026948770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fa1b2be821a400120f8f250e8a2e9c2/wejepal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a65dd7e25---fasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1107c4381e---gufuwukajixojugipojemig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/007o1tfppbu7qnc99n5dig7i52/jenojatukumotemip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lc3k1nm1iuvjk4aeu5hhsl2n14/sidobolalug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cde631ba61177018817cfb21fc05f37/kamadorafusizetemizimev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe9fmchfja9bft3hofarmflkk1/tabategawuvubesego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=keygen+autocad+2014+32+bitPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C2 5588 bytes
SHA-256: 17c7eb520951d4faea8f9c2e70f7bee6bf7b4ff1b8f74e03bb1e06c372ff7b7e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FC 11856 bytes
SHA-256: d92ce277254a171b952b52f668d5e050e066b7fff2dffca70f40746780e418c2