Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40f8d56be1e799e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-06-18 14:05:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 1de95d5a8607e23d5cb09131f7cb6621 SHA-1: cecf20de8c99f95427cf2a69bf6fccdcdf652f16 SHA-256: 40f8d56be1e799e1ac347034e85f87280e6cf7044595def7ae784fe80bcd3045
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 0.9998

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lyrics+let+you+love+me+rita+ora PDF link annotation
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file/%5C/melozofuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/9661143349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/401338f3c879543dd70411d18fb22b16/96129627321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/wasisafatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kildevangen.dk/files/14909879020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salinahighschool1968.com/clients/3/33/33fcb9b832a528c934b1ac42c6b88a99/File/sosaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f58e13d75---zegimesiseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081821a4bcbc---90553110787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/55382027532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2bf6137c69---81761978286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/pukutuguxiluperawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3110bd69e0---54618217839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/sbsisnew/userfiles/file/94513811424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609912dc77641---buxonezezesoxexotokawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/68169076813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3683b5da4---tolixexar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dafc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAFC 5048 bytes
SHA-256: 7e93cc51181b063ca5cd179026732446210286730ee354f7b6b0f8fb7f330aff
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC21 10972 bytes
SHA-256: b89c592e23a7aaa344dae7a8e60ccd259880a5e1b15c344c5edd9eed733cc1ca

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