Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40b1e21ac35a5f87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:06:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ce2a3be1d92834ecac60b723995ff4a8 SHA-1: 855f0e676feb4f8c33abe87e9924f5ec36e62266 SHA-256: 40b1e21ac35a5f879d75ced74c5cda8ed3c8aa309116bca2d80b9fb1a7f69970
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. This indicates the document is likely a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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=identifying+true+and+false+ratio+statements PDF link annotation
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/28283726980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viacaosaopedro.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vitanogamokijuvejule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa94cfe256ab9e6aa2b18eb5b73a9a25/refisufudefubebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb5aeb1c00---dukoxanaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b256d1be473dfcff0211143cea0dd2fb/minevelaniwirinubaxudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3kn6gs2olhdq662bog4e80oh0/wixonudevujitufawibaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tj-1970-50yr.com/clients/e/e8/e8fccb6fb94f20b6ca4375945b3939e1/File/94104496392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1324182b32---xuwokutarogexekidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/58053625363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/61031389286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/67124645499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/18227970750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f6679c277---28809548265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1a6na6m4tvfacuh9ua9lcm19q/gubedife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/7033411908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthihatgiong.vn/webroot/img/files/73322058408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benevolo.it/userfiles/files/nogepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a8b7fb4fdda53e1bfa07ad5a2dc511a/bilobepiporoxejuzunamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a445881e528---manotutumubuwokemoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/wifuxulodenotujogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9eae30fe3fd7b4700ebe7b558abfb0af/poxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63a5810dd08d4ae5fba3ea6f908e50c9/46449696835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9u9cck4f1vm7amglsntspslso/43736214809.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_off00010fbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000127d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127D5 10864 bytes
SHA-256: b1c944383dd798462dc96446fc19266abf8168cba3c0b7a17dba62a3642caa33
font_02_sfnt_off000140b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140B8 15332 bytes
SHA-256: bab7f41c9f978748b2a1e5366badb96ee95e0b76a7a32317ea6f0ca304896db6