Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d40437d2b93faed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:35:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8cd934ede604577cad8d99af6e36df59 SHA-1: 880add33e0e8f1a77d91c627671540b666339219 SHA-256: 7d40437d2b93faed56310c21145b5efdca6c1c0d354a8142c094d5b8f82d262b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 https://aljazeerahdrilling.com/userfiles/files/82938633842.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f6d3bd8a4cbdd03a62bdf70ecbbd7a1/kowakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/talav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120fcc960900---xewulutafifibib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071caacba35e---tipil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yocarbroker.com/upload/ckfinder/files/779132186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/26685855660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d637048d79a39ba3983b4d55cfd78e48/zeluvovadokem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/diridojip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160955e3bf0fbe---doturenejaretor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/diwitoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/wotawalosajodaboteso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32a7a2a3af492d1a5187753b6f95ea13/zoxigetifepizomenisapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/tunoguzuzozafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lohs69.com/clients/82366/File/96879175100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gi8l1gv20n9dg2fustl39otqh7/24570667084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopcloud.cloud//ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuniri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67f8ba21d5---24833774275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6544b3dcb1b301a429e6887ac5cb02c/73512179954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakineshr.az/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12340944338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fid-data.fr/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/37509836698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greentreeprep.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kibawolene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sporteambiente.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muguvurepuxoserukoziwiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/rowazunimulejokaferupujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bbf490e8f---loguwoguniwapakodalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=singapore+math+4th+grade+workbook+pdfPDF 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_off00010020.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10020 18784 bytes
SHA-256: eb9435f0fe544c7b34b8dcc8b7280870ad32301889904f3f589d19f89aa1d8fe
font_01_sfnt_off000130c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130C4 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 77ae9d16f03a75a0f3e02b7d060a54f3c80955542763d9f7515441f8cdfffecc
font_02_sfnt_off00014a7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1