Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40fae651845d3b06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-30 16:58:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8b3006c1390789a99d9258a2938a6ffe SHA-1: 5f59dcec4cfbb31813c4bd30ef078a604f946ea7 SHA-256: 40fae651845d3b06aec1f4dde6b51c8e936406f962bf71ce51e7c486255aed70
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable text, providing no further clues to the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9627e06435---62873327540.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://greer2001.com/clients/e/ea/ea56749d84c1a2d7db36d2c51c833a37/File/60719669362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pune-india.info/userfiles/file/43044448342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flynewsletter.com/uploads/file/boxukap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents//files/70616505672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b3468bd5c---nidemepenin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dostavkaturov.ru/files/file/bapijaginikuseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsaovang.com/uploads/userfiles/file/86704102298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/nozusenavojomimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bptramptour.pl/files/file/48801853543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6b9bdcd5849cc55fb59f5c04dfec472/1275706806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33614107137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicamarsala.it/userfiles/files/29714416733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/mivowotuzobovojunaxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/fapusedigezojema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54a8f4eed9893347f0ad5c29f2ec4078/wuvoziwokojelozolasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htchninc.com/d/files/fomilejivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caryhigh1987.com/clients/41333/File/lewivawudexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25916586e0---gatezof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q49sriu6ut78dklnk9p6pqjsa2/75843693455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c2b19414a---76096504170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95a3fd1c9ae5c681971dadc1f273130f/porexuzinaxidojeteso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/74698089905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadinerogger.ch/userfiles/files/fumawuzanimolum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+read+renal+doppler+ultrasoundPDF 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_off0000f62a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF62A 10468 bytes
SHA-256: f9602857c42737642161cb9ce5dd058091aecd29ec596b6eb00e9a17fce28ab9
font_01_sfnt_off00010e17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012629.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12629 18552 bytes
SHA-256: 4d5cf46932c76dbeb7dfa9753dfc95eb82da31ca5a9417c566f8e1c20e5bf432