Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40903d7194be28e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.4 KB Created: 2021-07-22 15:42:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 068a7ad8d4b86ec4322ab3b2c26db9e8 SHA-1: 95cd1621ae1bca97707c45006ce01028b1599815 SHA-256: 40903d7194be28e1dba3373a18bb77a308d13fe34a667a035e7d769ea52fcb53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, indicating a malicious intent to deceive users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4592018805c86b04db47041548bfa12/72332269539.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/37789061944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astdubai.co/userfiles/files/davogigubibibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/12314517629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/fedizafarok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd6ac273aa---zozevizasamunofijorila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210721162688944834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/feraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05a757fbf8bfd12d0f2e4da270aa0cc6/tozonodupupebupaginifunar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a04090c513d---jusafigegafoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c932c156bf---ropodazuxewitiwisomeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/28244457606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/68951635919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/tutusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f51808ffc937afdb9812fba0f51e649f/jiruvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094688663336---bixireruxojuxenar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b82ed31dd5f3c9b7c62f91e331e923d/197660289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xnucleus.com/members//member_images/files/5381902541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1a3ac3662f5d61faf8d5103d9cb3ed1/moridajifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5no039r6380a0ebiui8glg6aq/25157653945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettyloupaints.com/userfiles/files/94045120842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/musatatirunelokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082df7ba4d64---92118336548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=good+foreplay+for+womenPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013187.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13187 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001499e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1499E 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 8a12314869524ffcc9b7a37baf5fb6d2af869488530a79ef8a60bf69e48bb0e1
font_02_sfnt_off000161ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161AC 18544 bytes
SHA-256: bb9a861042d1224389aa00e18f981efc41669ca48b7b7ab0c23a4097ce7916ed