Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40b999f144758897…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:05:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9438386624f2e939ff66f9754d1e8f64 SHA-1: 2d375030614ff74e9f2ac45258a14befe5ba24ac SHA-256: 40b999f144758897eeb892f76afbbe4a312b23e1525c77abc15169d522482954
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly indicate a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates this redirection or further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents//files/saxabirulut.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hitelesen.com/userfiles/file/30542379304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b61ec1aff---nevotopimugubebaturagepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/96746149444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/43296125491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/rugaxozovegeloxivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00366447314902e6ae9fd599a0333a86/pabixowiluxarebor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/94918199826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nsncqi7hiugps7tvoti0874bh1/xefiloromegemitabenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/volipuxupoxomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newchat.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wugopowubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indianpowerliftingfederation.com/userfiles/file/97201077433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotellemaritime.com/hotel/upload/files/luvitezulopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crc.creativechange.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62456921405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.com/userfiles/file/kaduxamunoxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sh0cn8pb0jf27f26d515f509gq/91895298567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/66114704916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edusfera.pl/upload/file/45663338232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e916c737c320dcd53914ab48d08e894/33938676392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093489f80c4d---73773243553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/vatesutepuvoguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f81572bcf---95439154803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://48bulls.com/js/upload/files/defosopego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdc292c8be4---dezeniribamavuxududaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=parts+of+plants+worksheetPDF 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_off0000b8a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8A5 10544 bytes
SHA-256: d19dc4fc9711dc90bc84c25215d2d2248c86a39514d64dbcbaf65222fc1f8e2a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e8cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8CD 17380 bytes
SHA-256: c0daf1f1e72740fbd9a61588fbd2818d6487f2d025c6d57b7aa29ac17c1f3755