Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40b30e4264c4abb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:01:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ddca07e70eb501fa100ae7aba434d15d SHA-1: 73963186a2f4b4d054c8e4d3a2e5fcb5a6ca7c7b SHA-256: 40b30e4264c4abb5b98b1b1e8f14983b04403c54e8f23ffcada283e7f51aa41e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress uploads and other potentially malicious sites. The presence of multiple unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute further payloads or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fcfcd0df6---savobapadeje.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/tazutakilovojafitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/42731887969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a833d292b63---somonotamesabebegujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/54789535556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0303baab6ca058fd439259df8b753d/lumeguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ebe627162---47727672385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandirent-new.ru/uploads/assets/file/43936757950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210617174401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e868491ee0---83756213492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b90be2a4b7803f732fc61f41b4f6fa5d/simevawusapepifodobapor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/vebajezelorexiwajumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df98abf2f0---13280668759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fenotropil.ru/userfiles/file/lasivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/widobojuxilofikojune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/29948863800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b2d4e8ace---kutonozagawawuxorenuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/lexosuramujakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ompa6lm4i01kc198lc029hai8q/zeroroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/94021144438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c388ba30b---sepujoderabib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gtp1fni4lgcvt0th08h8q2olsu/74597186408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814e1398de3---60639624320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=online+quiz+with+answersPDF 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_off0000f526.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF526 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 8bb044cd15ee60c591f9f14b41849ccec34698f3ec0ee1166c1bfc7a31aad12f
font_01_sfnt_off00010d20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D20 17068 bytes
SHA-256: e712fd7d043424d87320ad0255fc1bb5e9a5e9adfb154a9a35e069ee2d17cc17
font_02_sfnt_off0001396b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1396B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1