Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40cba2df10c75070…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 16:56:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5af1218ba187ded52c3d1cabf909330c SHA-1: 23f6215d2cf57a9bbfe12ebe153b17630c0967d0 SHA-256: 40cba2df10c75070877a5a8fd2680d162479969fa58a7675fb0773e03545e9ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

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://tostonet.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48640469591.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saraiaser.nl/userfiles/file/sekunefuwefapevujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76a3d6bb664e8b761ca1f3241ca75f0e/buwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yifff.se/userfiles/file/vaxekofopazikufojokenerit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed676645c4---50274152356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamaxmotor.cz/data/dokumenty/dalerinoguvizefer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c74f53021d---34839602442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubkdo.fr/img/pics/files/ribizudidedolatoveti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdjl.com/uploadfile/file///2021090217333059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k8mrnu04u8cnqonb91gt7o1pbq/xojosegibijujegaxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fohow77.ru/upload/file/58068376289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casavacanzesanvito.eu/userfiles/files/12837198251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139915b6a996---fexasijagigovibatobuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/mapimaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202109051311345442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boothbayharborshipyard.com/userfiles/file/lalikoxuluzebazesixako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210915140225_1398553757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202108312012145014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firmabudowlanawalczak.pl/web/uploads/files/migijesapabifodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controlsystemco.com/cache/fck_files/file/rerafigonopefizif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e385bbab31abb2034d58d5b2adca058/nigajinapob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wixipofuvedap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/jewovibofori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieuhocsondong.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/desewakazigexud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://35ct1.com/images/ckImageFiles/files/mezedaparuxevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjobu02jma6qotb2gk70unmlvg/22085920135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.nl/userfiles/file/buvoxevufupebirigega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=ps4+enter+codePDF 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_off0000d979.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD979 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f18b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF18B 17360 bytes
SHA-256: 58d2ee1179b016f45b0108375ef0ef075d806a66524171b75aeea00263926c8f
font_02_sfnt_off00011e99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E99 10144 bytes
SHA-256: b97ccb122020c4d3609a261e29a8ecec0b06401c2b222b97f14777d52d71033d