Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 740268c3dd3204c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 06:44:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9077ea32b6cb79dd7f81ff19aa3c17cc SHA-1: cd2be7b58e2ed1b50695988dad0e9195c3fb0555 SHA-256: 740268c3dd3204c4313140926d205c91122c4d0119e5365dcdebafe2bb01ab88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for further actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jk+rowling+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/vurojikipinosineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvaracskaskola.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/xinuxureneforozuzikewibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafjbawrcdgsodbdciig4a5v.xn--p1ai/pict/file/dusetefulikuterijodumiduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajambary.com/userfiles/file/17449604540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zanikasedakovozen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7578c10c4824e6b106ca17fba346ef0d/16338684434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70621153063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a1dc8b6cae---78850093131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/vipebedov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blossomtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_90DDBBDDFA82E6D1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed95866e18---kejifewimurijexutuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://identik.hu/editor_up/gigasixora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parlagame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/69038177845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magooferta.pl/uploads/fck/file/denapuboguponadoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papaicountrylodge-longstay.com/user_img/files/34599277527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1451519031f0d0949aaaff8a57f3d8d3/lejenagamuloraxizut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/vusumilewovugel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibnuaffan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94947344497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huyndaicaudien.com/upload/files/tiforere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gimnazjum-krasiczyn.pl/img/userfiles/file/19157626621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://life-homeshop.com/asset/uploads/files/37922047345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fd2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD2B 18324 bytes
SHA-256: beb9b58bb2c291c94cad924f78b3339a8beedcbcd07b930ab3f4a618c542a58b
font_01_sfnt_off00012d29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D29 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 83be4eb3f1fc587825e2f70a47a55f32a9cfb7ca43469d3d9b3f94d3ffd76dd1
font_02_sfnt_off0001442f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1442F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1