Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40ab9652dbc68af6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:04:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: df3c28119382ef6d6de85f0eeee39530 SHA-1: ec75bb4e41f3a4af8c50b48a149ecffcd95b6f08 SHA-256: 40ab9652dbc68af60bb75933c88f46b9e9e06ed444bb676c14d50b2070491466
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs and the nature of the hosting indicate an attempt to lure users to external, untrusted content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862564318d3---9023662963.pdf
    • http://vssteel1999.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/88908727762.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bbf4b322a---20658728406.pdf
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouc5l4u349uf4vmemgjfjkflca/lipegiwewu.pdf
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/61505914605.pdf
    • http://felixefontesadvogados.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59625375096.pdf
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/zazexafigetaweneduxo.pdf
    • http://ediljolli.com/userfiles/files/65018258837.pdf
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/51360674698.pdf
    • https://totalmediasolutions.ae/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84050903206.pdf
    • http://www.neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43663759050.pdf
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/76657121448.pdf
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da3e641f977---rozimijasupifu.pdf
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021082112461073499.pdf
    • https://digireg.cn/upload/79439780198.pdf
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/zotoranamu.pdf
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0370c18f5---96912830315.pdf
    • http://lagunarent.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sonusozegutivomajoz.pdf
    • https://tasivn.com/upload/ck/files/venup.pdf
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/35288233877.pdf
    • https://hostingalani.com/calisma2/files/uploads/78488217441.pdf
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/26977584342.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607586960cb8c---89880045801.pdf
    • http://dso-fuzine.si/docs/94152437972.pdf
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112ca38d3fa5---62566279647.pdf
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/58203689266.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=claiming+children+on+taxes
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e160.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE160 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f972.bin
b95fe481b796e109d32dccc36cdbe69e7fac64c3977f1f449779414fd8cc0357
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF972 16972 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001253f.bin
263c177cc00eec950c03580b2fced5b2b9c712275ac4c9d40d2fdbfb7135f5b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1253F 10952 bytes