Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 640b1cc0743c28ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-07-19 15:35:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2878cb3645ffd3e4f19d241ca6c63802 SHA-1: 785eb72c09a020ca94fc89cfba96ddcb4b411bd9 SHA-256: 640b1cc0743c28cab830cb8cde5698b69622fffa74cf02b73ebf55de142d7c65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to external malicious sites. The presence of multiple unknown URLs hosted on potentially disposable or compromised domains reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://falerisztika.hu/tmp/kipoviletidegu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b8b492ad3---migijizomil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/2141101256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d50b22eeb9---gukewewosudevufasaveneko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1a20dbcec2---9569294808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d13878dff2---kazuximokifogofisid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/87698069002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8eb35da6c---rukufodaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021062801440645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beee31dd1a3---juwozopaxajof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c9d76bb84---revidoxupebotorom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b133a5c4b---xabozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/671505dbee532252a419e5b10918f2d6/nekezavirazex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcos-eff.it/userfiles/files/30977751680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b0389ddab---nepijidakotebol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7edc25941fcdb1992b20c8af6e7a84ae/2108262775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jameshamiltondds.com/clients/6/6c/6cc67b5d90347a591bf4e9c0b97a5143/File/3136602130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb1ba22d3d3---sotabitesikobipubisus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/zifan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tizianaiberti.it/userfiles/files/bobuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/mazokazujirigokate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/385a740c47277d10f0d54433dcab7bc1/guvevavefagejubudosewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210606071405779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1u0bbrcptd9vdg0jjubdos8sg/xagulekabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=orbi+dos+attack+ack+scanPDF 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_off0000baec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAEC 15944 bytes
SHA-256: d0da01eecbf1b249bb3b0fc6ef0191cbaa5ea4d2082aeaeca7019387a32c53e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e41a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE41A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC31 10444 bytes
SHA-256: e58edc786521d08a618ea4afd38fd12ab082f7de7225a43f7f22c4f2db455f76