Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40d6b72600e3d697…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:43:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ff5d584c4ffc50f1aef5a72af91ce64c SHA-1: bc1cdbdbb450caaa0e336d2afe368d63bcc3a7c7 SHA-256: 40d6b72600e3d69739a567023c994c8fbca634cced1c019bc7f09af21775080f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f5db7051a---15159392180.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e18b0291531e854c4e9a6c09e9b660c/652611241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210801061006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8373c9d7b7d85d0238b58754bfcf94d0/1694451195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/xomakeninakunuzumizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/foroxigafegavuvukutezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34515492070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://excellencetogether.com/img/files/file/zafopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altus.pl/userfiles/file/juwapapujovoluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/72800266599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cf76243741b0537f652d9fd1742b653/51885819205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/jumiturojuvivowozafidof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b998da8062f---87946032942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/nifalesozifilutesesubap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aminotp.com/upload/files/kitonebom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aabdccd425---822611992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/fokaxerunugunugaxupur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecnoservizi.com/userfiles/files/xisoteginamasusinadivise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/files/26674151414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6b7a01f52---88797378861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dheev5i6a52eljc6d713cce467/56457491925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/rumewadafigojodorad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/35251818388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd7c4e24f68---bimav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=dialogos+en+ingles+escritos+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_off0000d77e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD77E 19436 bytes
SHA-256: e72b813f2aa819658c05db9ba4f60a5674fa1fb4114de9ed325047ca7789f8f9
font_01_sfnt_off00010935.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10935 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001214c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1214C 10796 bytes
SHA-256: f381449a3e9a60f697c032153fa0c2baa2ad5b0dbb6c1c0e0fdb230136b7ff83