Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40d5741f3df4f01e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:30:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6aaf8ae80295f787156d3074aa4af5b3 SHA-1: 81eb11dc58685f7742a2585dad692395dd54ce81 SHA-256: 40d5741f3df4f01efe8a98fad243d467c77b8ee70b3fc8335ab491a8b08c7e3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of 'tax withheld table pdf' in one of the URLs indicates a potential lure for phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba08c9eecd---fovipug.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3a00c893ee---wefaguzexuzudobexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/615673f1d8bda63a21feef3c586ff86c/jezeduginomarinimajut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rte6cr4r8rcf7f817mu05ovhjs/47646271823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stapper.de/sites/default/files/userfilesfile/60647610778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/texaradawapamewajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emons-verlag.net/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/narogawudokivurodotejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/potejeboposovimitawuxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/latevovozuvove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ronaldtan.nl/images/photo/28449468729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8c7869ead---lowobozeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1009d131a4d95014f253c2577ef36d6/babugexapumaxududoxapupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/ditadidiludaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virus-safe-zone.com/ckupload/files/85722799967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcot.org/userfiles/file/bedenivar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/85486681023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daikinhbac.com/upload/files/87925498809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21ef4ad46c0d6770f03e8adac7861d16/34279041665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6ed1ccfa3---gefuzipijamuzibigukilip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eae497816ebd4f25a87fc0ca45fe37e7/88527941462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonmechina.com/ckupload/files/84023759346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetfanini.eu/userfiles/files/zubakanapirikokukijubuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833262a37f6---31847128424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=tax+withheld+table+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_off0000d4d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ece4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE4 17668 bytes
SHA-256: fd557007c8110a687af84991cc230cbd1f1617e5c17b63cfe44897221eaeeabf
font_02_sfnt_off00011a9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A9B 10392 bytes
SHA-256: bd401641faa3093871a035c1e50be79fd5300997b69d430c3ac942ad996a0916