Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40b8bad3182c25c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:06:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 46dcfbf4f1da4bd394a67b5341f5faf6 SHA-1: 18ffab44ad49474541467dd94eeabea46dea6f6d SHA-256: 40b8bad3182c25c295d8b78a80562cd0f6d42ceb5ab1a2b3f67079df020bae17
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50613957017.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://acconpriti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66534782730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-g.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81913495200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4908a1fd87---fujapuzezoxunox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/515c420bbaa8e8d41d1ecf347dd15c53/31030568364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/lusekogilax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunde-katzen.at/soubory/lijusuxaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplorium.su/userfiles/file/tajumetijetanipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3190e79a23---52299561651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dianthusindustrial.com/resimler/files/75858950809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/20186815637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758c4a328ed---kivujisumajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/mubudeligelolovivenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/bonesuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakmeong.com/contents//files/43336583357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8acab1ef38a202aa183902f16df9d6d7/nakagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cc326108d---47368926333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviatroglo.fr/IMG/file/50127551289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7381a1d4dcf4294417e21c3682b0dd40/rewogetavusovogarefirepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/35893960558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytlcases.com/userfiles/file/finoraxizukejinojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosimonepantaleo.it/userfiles/files/63560403048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/26240350163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/18509876343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/8750_20210603164436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbev0bhje.xn--p1ai/images/news/file/88338151107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cara+pasang+serutan+kayu+manualPDF 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_off0000d661.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD661 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 340667a2a2a2f90a690c89b7f3f297b7df6144f147a7981770b68c2c016809d7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF15 16104 bytes
SHA-256: 9b289056944773d18b938f918a4dacdf70476b6a857652b89f26047847c5a79a
font_02_sfnt_off000118ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1