Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a40047472ecc9c30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-06-10 11:19:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2e4d0feddee29b25699d4fe8828e8fc5 SHA-1: 5de7819b2b69b950694c35930468ef291cc246ce SHA-256: a40047472ecc9c30c0308d1a9d1aa25587dba512da3035862ac4176c0a914a0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to various websites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The document body's mention of 'Stardew valley item codes' serves as a lure to encourage clicks on these malicious links. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stardew+valley+item+codes PDF link annotation
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab083b17c5085c970f4e427f677495e3/dijunofoberoxokexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/63710204102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/21030034746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/xopejagitadanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/31841707234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2c2abaeea---49453894022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/xejujalobemozemavaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c479606db---29578050679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d3b121356---25337604335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/34520591291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2dea8934d8fe0b6609bb6feeb40a4b0/57465402188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b355da4a561---79122267132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1ba9873b3c2d5568faa0d13dfc0d93c/dilimoxawemixuxogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1diherncg826m6s7hmtmb1g39/lujazameloziroxexefaleveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4de3a01a743b48606a3f0bcee2ac8f9c/dobodimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000109a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A2 4124 bytes
SHA-256: 51cc22787229fd4c611c1186cff342f121ba75cc400826b9ae8aad33da6fc7b7
font_01_sfnt_off0001181e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1181E 5444 bytes
SHA-256: db5798d1bab16f63e71574c8b567991404070b54bffb04561d375314c3092d67
font_02_sfnt_off00012aa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AA3 11508 bytes
SHA-256: c7c2c89bc4e215869ba6ee46728440971613d649e600ce7964fb238b0cadbde4
font_03_sfnt_off000151f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151F8 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 581c0268a3cc9df95828ceb030693f64bcb03969c1cab585f80954d7fb3b146d