Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40c0f1889c610fc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:50:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 83a0eda2104b0ae908787177b3896e0c SHA-1: 538490e20154f5b4a9ba9ca623fcd3ef2a898ddb SHA-256: 40c0f1889c610fc8e3c99c1e66a538bed39c68069cf6b058cdfea2e8b2076510
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of a visual download button further supports a social engineering lure to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wbpsc+syllabus+2019+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://ji-tien.com/userfiles/file/vavirubutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rja7jpevretekd489bpu2pohk0/bulekimatazivijamajawelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/46966887713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b436c721a58dd20899c9728798f6a72/gipobeluluxefexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/95044967281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/34632507256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4370969443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qds85881st0ttin69frjjv690h/sovabebonipoguwijodawesat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bodabatukewezixowebisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dobubidojegawowaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apothepharma.com/upload/files/rebemagajoforazakixabima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzwgjx.com/d/files/sofevopasunajoxuroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j47nepajjqkmqscqb7md144tt6/43855662231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/31425254762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e3a2bcb79---zakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/jikigezufegit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f614ba2e6---gugozusuvedexexove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kevejosavizole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockpapersun.com/upload_mce_image/file/63849655837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles//files/32672623122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/25616920477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/kimugofonidufosapotujog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/33105136233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fc9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9B 11088 bytes
SHA-256: ee771c5e16c4f5c6a0581898bd088ec72758a61d0ad57b128e6894d3cbe826ea
font_01_sfnt_off0001168e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1168E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ea0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EA0 19560 bytes
SHA-256: 7e9c317ca039800257982cbbb90412d75a5ee95db20dc932f7e62781b4edb945