Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40a5926f08d34d63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-10-06 00:12:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 271890cb2d7bce394c89394aadb17fae SHA-1: 7a7b4f9ee4ae3d3785ad113eb5872b9ae69eec50 SHA-256: 40a5926f08d34d636873bddd4cacd55a407716a345930a291f020b4b92dfaac4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to exploit user trust by masquerading as legitimate content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=medical+office+administrator+resume PDF link annotation
    • http://imhyuk.com/imhyukeditor/userfile/file/62424556954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://89928386.com/uploads/files/202110051611441678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83a55b87b43312ad38d994fddf9b2627/robod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161423338bf89c---42172518538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsixiang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210913140720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smm-mm.com/uploads/news_file/patazubisupexinivolag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368a5fb3036---ripelawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seychelles-resort.com/images/blog/file/54965752334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/82175985257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomtco.com/technical/files/file/92675545952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/23243779976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97c74c89aba58ad2ab87e66efaec516e/18163335537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://it-hair.com/userfiles/novufepunenobeguxosim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/kelebobaropomukufuwimop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mogilew.ru/userfiles/file/95361364642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151b4e86f6c8---32975439147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/fuwewofuxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tndgdemo2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/badofitidigetifedutulaxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/xifafavekedib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshow.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wurewaxojoruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ln80.cn/filespath/files/20210922172222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabanagarden.hu/editor_up/78572333845.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_off0000c6f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6F9 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 55aef9181c1ae070a07cd44989fb240c9d0e6ee2f2696bb31a0cd8439f1daaf1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7AB 18040 bytes
SHA-256: 059be5232938d58d3bbb841e56ff8fc2472d42f5b0fcfabd5c9c0fbfe028c006