Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40e2b25e31739c20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:38:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 3ce61e65634294b952fffbb8c04c09ab SHA-1: d8404212e8eac943ef49364c8473f32ab0a7a37f SHA-256: 40e2b25e31739c20b346660bf4bdc7f20be1ef3ca1de25c2a3b5f2bd23cf9da9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609452c51072c---97506641935.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34970d929635b6160f2bf89af34e2093/89109388847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangvetthuong.com/luutru/files/47992409668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/rabizepizezegejobogusade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090495fc7135---28533984567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f904f35076---watudasatapapote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f12f98367d8d9e369a5b12a7f028338/15288926972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebammenglueck.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2743806580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/gemimovoramesaworepali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1801d01c97---27342749210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57f4ce6076---fisabodudatapod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/78842063808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34e052acc591fcc72b06dd5243aba99e/jilogiduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e607b7ec3---74737681081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetcarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/93279662186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdsductri.com/upload/files/22302018825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebeaf58e7891459114b18fd50ff8bba5/2315592758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/98338676296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c244798c9a1257edac6a50d03bb9bf1/piguzubiwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund-sro.cz/UserFiles/File/wajaxijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/pojonov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masan315.net/board/imagefile/file/goxujawijaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tplustech.com/images/ckeditor/files/61956233238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/321f8acb423a8d75a17f4cab0c7bebe2/90434103397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=corporativismo+em+portugal+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_off0000b418.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB418 10936 bytes
SHA-256: e3021b0bf47f0cf3a0641fa93de66e34b31bc7f89f2a268e6ed84f22e543752d
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD4D 14720 bytes
SHA-256: 6ff1f9dac71a332813d5181ceac5c2fe129bbd2f2727d5ccc51962ee904524f3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1