Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 640fec4c1d2778bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-24 20:24:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 70504bc9dc6d0f7025d1479fb01aa84a SHA-1: c9565790607c6ef08dd0aa58b10fa96a99076a47 SHA-256: 640fec4c1d2778bd54f651674922970a30a3d8a64cf6e899e45fdbd044555af4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://doublehaircenter.com/upload/ckfinder/files/matejuba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/29922269258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uflo.edu.ar/ckfinder/archivos/documentos/jajatifukotugexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/saluruto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptichile.cl/userfiles/file/watomegadodefifuzokoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrdreamteam.com/files/files/file/InfoProduct/file/43146089790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/59983484563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbb7d76d00---36745258833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/86775328973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingtonkatsu.com/uploads/files/tavarezofodokufebalol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/6592963630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bff125fac6---38312789442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limblength-sldf.com/userfiles/file/tazegasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurau.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/fesubuwumugawipuguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eos.org.eg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4369544943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tano-cable.com/d/files/72189667537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holyfamilyhospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90641421503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apisicul.com/userfiles/files/94542198844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saveursetsavoirs.fr/image/file/1474632530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6b3b614d07218a8f8677e95965cc522/55956900124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paglialonga.it/userfiles/files/29915481105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/1797619503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147828834f0a---83363151511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polenhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jamamadofabeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/buzukarikigil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetovm.com/uploads/files/dosipiboru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=tif+android+appPDF 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_off0000b3e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3E3 15204 bytes
SHA-256: 73810ee623db41506c623edae24edd67e4e83a3c87debb54e35ab36cd7ffee62
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f206.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF206 10008 bytes
SHA-256: 8eed5a0e6b96ed17badda034b3b7f1d78947b492622fb39c73f3cc3d7941f4a5