Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40772b1cc4b76170…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 18:45:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4742616109adc19a2cdf12b6679a4791 SHA-1: bf394abd296b1bf2e4dc449ecc4e7a41d5ec5b6e SHA-256: 40772b1cc4b76170656408ad1a92d48dab0605475db791ce5c5eacc4f2d2c68c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious redirection techniques.

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=revolutionary+road+full+movie+online+with+english+subtitles PDF link annotation
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqf15gvr2ctjdiu83opfegluqf/58324223751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locthanhroyal.com/upload/files/7058235094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlantidegattico.it/file/sevijubejazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobski.pl/userfiles/file/41832374392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioscoponi.eu/userfiles/files/93547974642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divanich96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/japinow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azinsaghf.com/cache/fck_files/file/63586819728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c16a9e8863---43743396559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/34393524876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polresseluma.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/98119149895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10s317.com/uploads/files/202109031913573089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e89218664d35f99045b0a9002e9f0ac/sosesam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirindhorn.net/upload/File/52199100727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/perizowabubuxafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.it/_data/images/file/52195268227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinyardim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/delukegirag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-mit.com/uploads/files/61035848806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcpsystem.com/userData/board/file/mafopuwatoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/53810968202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613beee3f3feb---dedurukinameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukonlinedirect.com/userfiles/files/satonemim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saunadlaciebie.pl/userfiles/file/rorewawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcaribe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30496866564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/dosulixusowepadotugam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobil-tech.com/files/79415138251.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE065 11352 bytes
SHA-256: 47e5c97f6793845bb8bf0302cfc13511eb2aacd2c00517c97bc0b3d24537ff14
font_01_sfnt_off0000faca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112DC 17272 bytes
SHA-256: 7ba7553b45d0687b45585aa41ba8f9730570521c69a36f9c67a6334ce72e71f2

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