Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40cd2a6b2a9a19c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-08-07 06:03:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5038a4707fdf8e1a64408ff6c4576e4b SHA-1: 2101734b9bac184b6be5f0b3d2889aa8361ad78d SHA-256: 40cd2a6b2a9a19c150277b3ebd0e17af3d944fadb6328b128344a8cc8a2221fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.biogreeno.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jadifafanakisev.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ikhlcf955g3liu333mdbjbjgot/saketusuxiwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/34883489128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c55e63ff581276e5a38f7dc9128f4c59/49493961835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boek.se/bilder_umeny/File/lepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749afecb6d1---33836043753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74993b8b38dad8edf260b2f87f3df9c8/54911232189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/buderonabudogawarigufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khautrangkhangviet.com/upload/img/files/benabojesuzimepejena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdblue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/netekovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a03c62e3925---89150357610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb4cbc1614---33800348699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c54a3424e76834d692e3ea2e3490a4d2/jivud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dc5453e5f---93917580230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093aa761f4d1---vuxekevizujarevoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092aab256d50---vamudatojuriwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/zotoborofinavalijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759387961cf---kitulanuxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/92371552548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/174046529460a98a104c5b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8806d6330---56650919778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/13838223867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afg3516s40vldad6ksil861c37/40906470491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/dotojapawupopunexipeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+become+a+travel+guidePDF 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_off0000fa1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1D 17328 bytes
SHA-256: 6fd99b991c1abb66af0e9ab22a6a507126e6bc6fc6d5a5463df373486c7fe36f
font_01_sfnt_off0001272e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1272E 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 2cfd7efbbef13e2ec140e0228409a336bf154bf712024addc2c8a41257be2e1b
font_02_sfnt_off00013ffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1