Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40d967745334098f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-06-19 05:12:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 7cea7648d266b1cf7c94f0b461e5f56c SHA-1: 731ad3e48d5e97bfa3f8ecdb48632fac9c19df5d SHA-256: 40d967745334098f0c4342f201714e9d38861213d55eeda2ab0903754abf8ed3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607971a0b88d5---24709208961.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nensi.si/upload/file/73352528555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078307a08d43---nekef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c35b63ec766---55061238248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af145b8898838ac3e7f13189530c59ab/gifefidogetufinakanej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/36983000787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ea4872dc6c12571499fe481a333decf/2343305755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/65030644082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/xizovowosidupemeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/2779486007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b9b0408bb---96227951425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983e0a30e67---puzunilonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf79b187879435e5afb553b948a1cdc6/7316361895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7ef34c296---72554002499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/xefipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/je5cq6c5ce3cp9kdthuh4k002o/75130032603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file/%5C/95674757305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=brim+mod+apk+unlimited+moneyPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000e33d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE33D 5144 bytes
SHA-256: 04abeb31e01982732258f82183e6a2370e7b807290761a5cce46fec8f5115073
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4AD 17548 bytes
SHA-256: 19499a0170d3fea1c38c750fad19c8389a95131a69c9b9791623b7d384a50501
font_02_sfnt_off000121eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121EB 16176 bytes
SHA-256: 9f002e17f334569b2ae367f13d4b1b14c7032daa99e1039ee9367b3ac2518b7c