Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40ce8d78117fddc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 03:31:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e9387d885a553f11ee6ad6ecade4020c SHA-1: 252d7a6bbe1f1831615546376929f916c9cb0b4c SHA-256: 40ce8d78117fddc13628557d15070c9b6fd7f7fed6a1d039fe92e7288df89138
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to potentially harmful content or for SEO manipulation, rather than delivering a direct exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/60519598448.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog//file/92779382860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedime.org/imagenes/61222573658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4fb2ab9bbaca53e347809df4c3c30e9/dibawagalinupoverebojiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e276271c7acd6699c2cd4f3355dbab3/mugasikasukifini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemail.com/userfiles/file/162350314647086507528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushimenifee.com/uploads/files/83292893637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/votejomovimugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18c2efa72e7a0f6c4d0b04e29d5b47e6/56383035395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktorpulling.de/ablage/userfiles/files/tibakolofav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ec7d338be---wikogaranosut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5q5nopusk95tlacqpu182q0u5/wonubufovovuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/jowilurapuzalefozezoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986bda22770---natinofavawagebide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noventa.cz/media/files/file/bijezokalugunelata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69f8e7ab605d23b5599103d2390b2ff4/37650467656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e9a016f16a1f9832f1d318938211b56/kofofubenobuwone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717e7b1a4f8---96395015720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5f8b8c3c4958190704dbe7d08b034de/42580047224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d4bfbdb2aaf096e65c1f1f70b9f2853/40735263907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b8ed477a4abb49922cdaabc0e7b50e/nepolegedewogaxima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/76819209983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilymillerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/57971575629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210506231203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=500+words+about+myselfPDF 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_off0000c440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC440 16820 bytes
SHA-256: 9962f35bf9431758c7fa9aa3cbb12a0d4d4f69873a114b00e41bd9d6c65d5a96
font_01_sfnt_off0000efd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD4 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 7a254238cda3edb5023a16435d4795e492078c8ee98323e2af48f2b3e7975c09
font_02_sfnt_off00010949.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10949 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1