Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40b9dbc4dd7f9e32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 00:35:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7910deff4b853465f735d7c833e59425 SHA-1: 75331b4c097f732eb2b5bba8a89e4bbceb4ac641 SHA-256: 40b9dbc4dd7f9e328d45a7d28e4208877fe67446e679cee65ebff69b7ff1021f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_QR_LURE' also indicates the document may instruct users to scan a QR code, a common phishing tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://mindentudor.hu/userfiles/file/9726977789.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/gopadafodisunetulufesafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.ru/d/files/90491004757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e31e224a9---gekepadodoxojamawewaxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/34573703586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamwork-poetschke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4908778192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6221766e1a9b2a34e72f7514a4ba8cbc/kidonewivitamowefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lienming-rubber.com/uploads/files/202109101247502080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tierlistei.ch/downloads/fulapukumegilajosup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142647cce31d---nofonurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rodnolespropertymanagement.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/25165886205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilonew.tasksplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61089031579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2tqvsob63lrbe3hnj5a0720b2/wawerab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatdarshan.net/rgroup/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ledivebepoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gujaratisamajparis.org/upload/files/mitakofakuwazilazuriman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-nails.pl/Upload/file/69301183862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikatalog.sk/_files/file/fozovanifezokibuxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sergeisurzhin.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwudatuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahae.hu/files/files/xovetajetutipilexajiweri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/77304746808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.com/aym_image/files/ruxemag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/gabuwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangtaoad.com/uploads/userfiles/file/ronamoninisizagura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hsk0f2bodapkh4l3o186q58r61/88240795477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bogekez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=wcc2+android+1PDF 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_off0000e9fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010211.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10211 10084 bytes
SHA-256: cfaf84b1e2777a6c7c3c7996a1b9b687817815f7d85842e7e35aa1fa34c4e8d5
font_02_sfnt_off000118bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118BD 17296 bytes
SHA-256: f35d8ccc0aa5b006c51faa3d24499898299f1cf4d1b385a8a9cdec93671d256a