Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40c254a1e0bd574d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 23:59:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a789f3e380898c4d72c148cfe946a681 SHA-1: 3956878a37a754f023d74eac02218febd3de801d SHA-256: 40c254a1e0bd574d694b7007d7346d4acb04b42e3b8791f1b2fd104b99743425
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Multiple heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to compromised websites and potentially disposable hosting. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/zozitipudatawoduwexedogew.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wspaperbag.com/userfiles/file/24088948314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalbizkorea.com/userData/board/file/63671050630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgrenginiai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35647179413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/39812002229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geelaboba.dswip.com/ci/userfiles/files/muxodugatade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontroll.hu/File/tekusipetixekanubekejajoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138e49ea7526---16794903436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161467ccf553a3---87558621728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e1664fada---89167133473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/25877548828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/divavajov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/89191946846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67bf2fc665300b7ed883ba34bc401410/16051146592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsoftyazilim.com/genelresimler/file/70563138841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congseng.com/uploadfile/files/bipoxixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulga.ru/editor/files/40914100829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/xuwakisamididanoparej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/62352995313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a310cd4ad---44503020290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalba.net/other_files/File/89314031635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/lepizatixapafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idroilektriki.gr/files/file/wibevadipipiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=a+day+in+the+life+of+ivan+denisovich+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_off0000b6ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6AB 18344 bytes
SHA-256: 597e5ffa804ee1d93ccf023b56b897c8f8b956dbdb2d6b6ae06d54b4cb44d6ab
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B1 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 68f98c170c99a2c7fba90415f36f11742159bc30a415062a6257bb79c09a6c11
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1