Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40ad9387a11352b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-08-29 15:25:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fb6835d75aa8ff4dcfb94ad7cd0d517b SHA-1: 968a20f0c7cf84b5159de914c854485b294966ea SHA-256: 40ad9387a11352b2ea1f09ff46f60661b11cb70539a978c56d22464287f4e7a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing further analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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 http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5b2c60d5b---mogozer.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bac243b3499---forunoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/72495599579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqno6fkp9ea1dsmka5vjedvp2v/80055044450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609146e67a37d---71858287101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b545dc641534134286294725a32d8846/guziwoxusipizekilutodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34745394ba21cfe4dcd288ea52a8565e/nuperinemusijatoboronu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.info/contents//files/42651883566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoaudytor.pl/userfiles/file/28336810847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/mimuvatez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melvin.cz/data/jivegisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/35422814361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a705148b9---motobaperomodapenirurepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc1cf7f62450627848778fc2527b25d4/tijerikukimajapivezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9ag700kosl534vml5tatg1gv0/kakivilefukudawurunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmsenior.org/file/files/jarebeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4him0qrgmkbu28tg05m8h1gsbd/newezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/37965990224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/67656900517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb722ab456---sidoweno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maloden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9e5ca3db1eb6f712def40826cca9835/16774941510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/33121268847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7999494131---75304456827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdhmiju4sglcsk39udi6vk9co0/94635225415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irish-setter-zucht.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wusubavekujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annandale1963.com/clients/69704/File/25219792263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887d6f888e7---56689597755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=the+great+rapturePDF 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_off0000e51d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE51D 18220 bytes
SHA-256: 234b8a41704f5b957127ddf524f2a9f2326d963bd696cb9875ef76de7c930e3a
font_01_sfnt_off00011406.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11406 10064 bytes
SHA-256: 8ec5f639dc32c2a673d0d43ca561d289ad13fd4e164be19f6c22955e36973250
font_02_sfnt_off00012a8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1