Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40a55bb095ac5aa3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:12:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7834da8786b4e52ae7e0942b0de331c5 SHA-1: 0afb1b7adc02aff75269cb1d00d6d567627d25a3 SHA-256: 40a55bb095ac5aa35fa75138c2a0208a22014c99dc2fae6ecac4ba561aa17219
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hp+workstation+z2+g4+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/manaresizoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/bojeveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/51368965581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://language-coach.pl/uploads/files/losil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/9097506914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghefoot.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/nurujiwexom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cctechlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/92265927523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umffz21.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tawuxamozopavadatiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba76a71616---586093905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/19083851783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqb64jjqimldhq8bujgnkm34kq/xuxalog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portugaliaimagyarok.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zozewamotorefejamowoxigik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/926e980cf26ebe221ab37e9710b4847e/85961048869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijn-nederland.nl/userfiles/file/49475732030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/9279747626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160becc4a3f435---tifagolarufoverasamuzej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/kujitafapepujitifovaduku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/8517446614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8uti2hak6l8r30s8k6u29krg77/gisijivosikisawafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/19882167998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0339f2c8ad---48036025158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/39849436621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ror8o8tpup6mlvnpm3o2m1im67/94459116626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1957a35b6d0748b56cad00742e24ab7e/tifalosigixiwivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be8bb86e418---bikigitas.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_off0000d53e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD53E 19484 bytes
SHA-256: f9c777dbb8fadd89a455bed6382c91c1b35bc433c8fe1321bca54f1ca9a89e19
font_01_sfnt_off00010723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10723 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 1435ed92129f9eeedc87181691f6b0156411a14d518f8e0d739f86455d6fd900
font_02_sfnt_off000120c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1