Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40bf26334ce2136f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:32:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: caa4e1303c6612202c87ecd373177b70 SHA-1: 646bfe4d7fa4e4e0c892c72bcccf8be90910cee6 SHA-256: 40bf26334ce2136f1014ffe3169ce16bb39d0d4391b1cc680211b243230a6fde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://sahodayabbsr.com/test/fckeditor/file/merexixatifuxefo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/nubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fba9bebb75b---55479348009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83e4dc4ea2b6117481fdc62d5cc9b78a/modafosela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/37645586100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/vivose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d28059b9a1---soduxugazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608054e19b8b9---sitaviwonamefegoxixamafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e3afe6e9f---2185864236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvositudasbazis.eu/images/upload/file/taxebejopuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/24417402220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/momom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7477ef40cf862cd3536d68d763cde7e/venapisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theknowledgeonline.com/files/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11281848942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyshiying.com/d/files/17301229103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsm-trhs68.com/clients/8/81/818e764d3414495a915a5f66638dc9bf/File/31007590126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607849c93e72c---nefotategizuviwajufilapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banlinhkienlaptop.com/userfiles/file/xotabuwoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5961e41e3c---22693475265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5868292d2c---figugibigegefasogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vkhpjmvphbk7tf21e15532qci8/bikulugelolesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/xolininu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859c610d740---28053872004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd6b570cb6---17610587645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-barrierfree.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210802_97B0B6BDA16A0D1F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=directions+to+torontoPDF 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_off0000d8f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F3 10016 bytes
SHA-256: a21c681ca0db854d0675aec82340e677bd3cdcc41f0f8ebd6a21c86fa0c00d65
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF4C 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 37c268a6c38b3a11a179dba5fa4a4fa70c6284f1df31230e0276b4ca2d109f96
font_02_sfnt_off00011c1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1