Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f40b62153140acb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:57:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 3b43f0316c57000619ab1be8f0216be4 SHA-1: 7bd5b28048dbf88a0f12a22bdf58e10a3c3ed2c0 SHA-256: 8f40b62153140acbdce3f91ab1c68f162d4cfca0ba7c37b601ddc88e3df63d0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs suggest a tactic of using compromised websites to host or link to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866c3a69aec---49304829875.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goddesshair.net/upload/users/files/nefipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/kolosivogafuvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themalc.org/files/file/namosumakevufutipesotodin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/61851921561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc9e335058---80615723537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://judyzscotties.com/clients/1/1f/1f1ef5c9f72ce0e5bea5babf356718c6/File/95550208461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prospekt-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63215970086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglenhospital.com/UserFiles/File/xinaniraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/lixeboxupidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/binagipazubifusote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5766fde05b---nebilujulavejeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca4a5294f9---fenudibokubujebix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f5d21e8d8---71003284246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/biforekenaletorarikaxopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608773bade386---93733518510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armiikrajowej36.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuvuzakatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zavetafarozozesukovomova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c9e77003b1---52541831745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3551598e6---zinogowirozamunodonumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f293442048c---musosunenefebokurejajawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be276b4d126---25961564768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/45329612467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/37772169427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofagiani.eu/userfiles/files/42281860263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b30edb960---89785628979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=conversor+de+word+para+pdf+i+love+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_off0000e24e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE24E 19552 bytes
SHA-256: 4acb0138a1d8b3e307c5bd1d64efe92dce6a7caba39deb7ab9a04b9855470575
font_01_sfnt_off0001159c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1159C 10576 bytes
SHA-256: a4ded33141c42a72270b49fcef0415f43346928fde8728ac3f55775ee955fc4c
font_02_sfnt_off00012df7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1