Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40ba6ecfe02fd13e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:44:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: dc2f77c4454c842f388e4863573aaafb SHA-1: a256d1555d9957269c6190499c2ede70bb085f6f SHA-256: 40ba6ecfe02fd13e555ef19d08cee10e5c265088e5fb206f3496bb68deb76506
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users to malicious content through a series of obfuscated links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/36083274347.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://restokrat.info/userfiles/file/sinijeluketevepizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/85164522579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af19a6bdb2---80767566773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e10d72b0e---jubimebepileregenavixaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aec957a51f1e36d501529677d8f682e0/dobaxupupudoxigolovile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xajasimipuwopisomusofebut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad3fa77a310---legurexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7169fc52a4a09d9ad9ef9ad549cc19f4/gilavos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/56370875596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eccfbf49819a6128402a29ae53d36ba9/jamudukefalip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/73782722017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c6090ac6e---xodemorekudubadode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef0acd36ab---65130354235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/30044271825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/33768181096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/xakusowurim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/xetufezitaxilosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0433a47e1a---9440278266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2df46be03---ruximidusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teifsepahan.com/files/file/virulokebaxuganajefup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burnat-provins.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kurewokoropovixekubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34c1daa0d2---jaxemal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210613184910757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24aqari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59294402886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dc778af3b46a1955105c36afb78cabc/wibovalaxewebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=tricotomia+matematicas+pdfPDF 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_off0000d9e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E5 18144 bytes
SHA-256: f8386773b375b922ea549cc77e1b1843a1d84952d47bf88ace2a142a81752b6c
font_01_sfnt_off000108fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12114 10592 bytes
SHA-256: e23aa6a94fc9151bd4a6b47a2b749c5b679b5b52a018efb5511ca5245e3f98e7