Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40eb08d8c1970f00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-06-11 15:43:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f48549c707f6bc0f8d6aff6d93722f01 SHA-1: e389e752cb4981bb4309c15e41a46afab47a4fc0 SHA-256: 40eb08d8c1970f00be6b34ba5910ef8d1ab7168b9296a009993ce2575495c3d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of 'utm_term=avengers+theme+download+mp3' in one URL indicates a lure for potentially unwanted content. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the file, likely serving as a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=avengers+theme+download+mp3 PDF link annotation
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/96279840164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85fcb95e7aadeafa771e216d8a19b3d2/kovabatezexoriwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/wegovuvupagokilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a8072006b5b731e2c785bdd591af00d/xuwufapogututi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/fabaxodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077286e21d22---82316882207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/juzozukekibetiwakadukus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hvls51ktq8rjuj597shqr8esr/86029660099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d9e891df2---57162783559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/382aa7a33fb28eed5917799968cef4a8/fesinaneto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c0e76f866f923bbaa24f5156f613f4c/2778925276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d2c13303eff609465a42a2ef5adddf3/rukodiwabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14da1cfedc9dab5c1f1c324d4c477a3f/sejexewomazilalezakoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca7be94dab---jubizupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6c19ebd66---zawurozejuraludepalivuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f56d525683---jimazinet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fd6a67900---setib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c108206642d---vokiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/mifibivojokofiguwivet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC53 5680 bytes
SHA-256: 8e1dc89e2606e66bb4fb34f46bfab68b54b313fe9cc9069fbc9d7f2ecbe9dec2
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF94 11484 bytes
SHA-256: 24c1497d44659ee8a0dbfb0e5af40bdeb016dac41f7bde6029d93623101fbe03
font_02_sfnt_off000116e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E6 7188 bytes
SHA-256: e76f2424328b11bfdae9bd8bb0fb709360ec850b6670406eca7ab1be5a3b874a