Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 640c9c870cebdf39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-07-14 06:07:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2908ea9380ee75b042de7086c8e705b9 SHA-1: f11d365ac600134f8d83708ca1514260686d1e0f SHA-256: 640c9c870cebdf395e946d9008aa5075ae6dfb354e0632fcec19c52fa805a6d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan PDF. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF's structure and embedded links strongly suggest an attempt to lead users to malicious external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607501b496f1e---19218263487.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/45767345897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/73457852820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/691ahi7dpii1q83cqo9lemo2r4/baliwozudatupizosineru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bf3490f6d---54539528021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a413912fc3f440b96aaf7548d60bee0b/13168346672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csa.china-led.net/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/suziveva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b879bb4f050---xituboji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a509b16f12---32166263607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/zenesebawilajefiwativ.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707034d4728---10557809285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gerastar.com/userfiles/file/44904364848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/pexawirumenusonobutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labcoop-jsc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd69kvnf9fjtjnvled1liksg7t/nejeleme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/63899298693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5amp6n0pscr9gfone4gec5h39j/raraxadetivumonizebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ad10f45f5cf94799ee9d162658fc066/rosem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1960.com/clients/865265/File/97567807467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724e4f3d527---kofuzovixoridusefuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098cc489993d---73128214778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/15268867971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topplene.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210626053752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nullemont.fr/nullemont/ckfinder/userfiles/files/notogugijisexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/74787805115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bffe153ddd3---matarexadarasewazukirafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=thick+and+sticky+crosswordPDF 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_off0000cdf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDF5 17476 bytes
SHA-256: 93cc425a18e56c22efee29205611865bc7be9bfaeee06656e0dc249b03ee2929
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11369 10544 bytes
SHA-256: d960716678b2fc3229199166e9554f490527c393d589420fb790cb08e14c68a2