Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 540cdf0af4aeee70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 07:45:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0c2241ee79454384e583f3b421d11e7b SHA-1: ce1ea5de1ec286bbe8b2c77b93b9262dbd695aa0 SHA-256: 540cdf0af4aeee7090383aa5236dfc616a455d3dfc7d1976f5e11e3c97422f89
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an effort to obscure the true destination. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate an attempt to redirect users to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://tupnate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79805675260.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://drzwiukryte.pl/userfiles/file/demas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136360d36100---kiveji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://druckmaschinenservice.com/uploads/fce/files/33163307456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biharlokmanch.org/userfiles/file/nufupegarusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunianco.com/other_files/File/30705595988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otelm4b.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90400453533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernersuarez.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bepuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/xexamafijurukaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137121b27958---dogabazudelex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/gileliropalur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanmemerp.vn/attachment/files/petogul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ca7e57f77---64144611174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f1eb16653---11293947703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/vupin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/ditebusawozawefivaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daquin-ferriere.fr/userfiles/file/viwozilanofawurusuravuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34798077277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135acfc523fb---xisaxebederipunuvage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17261026294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleb777.com/fck_upload/file/ximukunalup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a439528c7---novikakuziveneduvoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/rusoxitam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myesen.life/userfiles/file/navalunelego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+3s+prime+software+downloadPDF 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_off0000df15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f72c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF72C 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 115b8a1aa5341355d9f27f2fbaa1a32b08bcbf405adc4e63d81df5876800f8b5
font_02_sfnt_off000110a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A4 17500 bytes
SHA-256: 5993305e9c40d63ab7c65509b7e4f6dc375c71f4836695f95a7b347d99534f3b