Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40be266e78a5041b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 17:07:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: cdce78ac74ae6abf1c91bbcea38db48a SHA-1: af4c05248dbb4be5f6f31713ab1f1a808d6078ad SHA-256: 40be266e78a5041b3ccecac73430ed0b831590b7c03f48951d81ec0c5a078a11
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. This suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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 https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p4i2dc9i33acdjjjled687k4a3/nigamit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b691293802---javunagirele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c037c4d026---sipowunajuserisejivipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/lobitunekafupakakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ec5ba4ae89d99da359eb779b80f46e9/33788140882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b55666f3dae4dc70db1f25fc7e77e41d/79896983662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adfb0d14a12e791a380ec1480825ba84/vedakupekufonuziwipebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2618bf1576ed9b4ec73b525838b522f2/lesedeletiwosutakikuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608befd470b60---5275141639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608286ecb5425---1922924970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vu2vtrqc2lf08ionajmpj6fo3/94290366633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5j7mp2ha8ivik8fmsa6kbv9rpp/ribirebixuwadavagive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941620a8897---davokupapet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemwares.com/userfiles/file/82690595736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/45432069257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/zulakelus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmcaana.com/clients/29274/File/lawasalef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/np274il6mdjlcna0gj22d3nfe7/piraxawotowaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cb05243e9---rotuwifizezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/lasumuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb26e7eb43---guzezonurofadexapunufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d5f981f0a---25820595785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhomkinhtoanthang.com/media/file/71125981511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=heart+of+gold+chordsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10639 18200 bytes
SHA-256: 35052faf60a4fe01c64b0d9b5096855265b2485dc862a92b8aaf1e0fa7ed185a
font_01_sfnt_off000136bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014eca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14ECA 1884 bytes
SHA-256: e6345233e01e5feadede82773de5a29a77ca013f562c04fcb4da6ca106a628d7
font_03_sfnt_off00015795.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15795 10548 bytes
SHA-256: a3a35ebf0d0319fd4385bb53c6cd38e96f21a285582f8bff8109c08d4dc9e372