Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40aa26cef50bf4d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-10-08 07:17:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 8a80270109a1c1bfd0adb349601243ec SHA-1: 3011b84ba5576012fc70cf0ebe9330d468a5cd8c SHA-256: 40aa26cef50bf4d269f9b3477cb7e47a57cdf98c865704cb8c689a7801eb3730
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics suggest this is a phishing attempt, and ClamAV detection confirms it is malicious. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155a2bf0c499---35741781148.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--evdebakmhizmetleri-k0c.com/uploads/file/fadotadovapilap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertcomptablecourreges.fr/michel_courreges/userfiles/file/10465863248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saintarseny.ca/sites/saintarseny.ca/files/file/61076535267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprzybranowo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juvojotokinijoduwusiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orsini-blasioli.it/userfiles/files/60056580471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldarim.ir/basefile/hoteldarimir/files/sifatadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/pipupedateleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gosselindesign.com/images/from_fckeditor/fichiers/kobamaxadusagolavovikun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-noginsk.ru/upload_picture/file/14214052854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149f751b1d7e---37807861949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/93776822306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavfelugyelet.megujuloenergiapark.hu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48296956800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chanty.dacola.com/upload/files/devonoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/39530734234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorapizza.it/userfiles/files/lumekaludexerosawufako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161582ee92780f---karazitola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contactfm.be/userfiles/files/36278648628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karpzbeldowa.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/zulubego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/69291074659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpkoaee.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lijexojugogatizibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giasidaily.com/uploads/userfiles/file/fujimomoguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigapilar.com/upload/files/40022925647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://episcopiaoradiei.ro/files/fekojipodatitokomazaxeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hardlineconstruct.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/99648068489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=f+stop+numbersPDF 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_off0000c956.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC956 17908 bytes
SHA-256: 095795e34f24de3741ef42332c5b1451e6b1444a911467a7c1f1e876d39f0f42
font_01_sfnt_off0000f84e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF84E 10328 bytes
SHA-256: b16c816e82848f02dd336d94eb20cec42d7d62342b569b7253fa28c9cd37d3e3
font_02_sfnt_off00010f5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1