Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40c131a93743820d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:49:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0c68938d767f0cefe65717d20f328024 SHA-1: 97087d682a41381211e89365c55de75906e08c92 SHA-256: 40c131a93743820dca745383aee6395b76d697f333eb305536c711b91aec55af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with spearphishing attachments designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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 http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec0cda6a77---37567101230.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.lnk-creation.fr/upload/file/53267049140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cde86e032---1500768194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stealthwindow.tw/uploads//files/202108121456037009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116b358b4304---45384083977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lk1t15irgu3sbenj0f62mvpum7/dizobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://108homed.com/userfiles/files/29629957555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/4302301583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37e5c698e5afa7e79dc0306c111ef0ab/vixadikisuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9955263e7n96p6h4pafi1hib3/75915366450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpoolandsauna.com/user_img/files/nivawuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071195d064fc---nesowapoturujomofik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/vikuzeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stitesattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/18262364504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5b0662849---38022009235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcsfood.com/images/file/82711191121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e6ffa2ac3---rafuxiwifapemobozoleliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/kiworonexabifujazad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9ad288b53456c305ba40d51433faf71/11840764280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-instar.com/userfiles/file/35877208206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/4631191807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d131535722144777f4dc4015db6324d/24129889609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/jafari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4269d6ebc4---32440246672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/ledejafimok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/57857806109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/gupizevetakodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=financial+management+study+guide+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_off0000ddb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C7 10936 bytes
SHA-256: ed708bb714247a63270bec3a0322f765b8dd8596b010d65e03a8592f4868b80b
font_02_sfnt_off00010ee3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE3 17156 bytes
SHA-256: b2181bd64e1d10b1704b5f0a8c0701fc9c2274862984c39c0c9aa783bedd3f58