Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a40912e89ff36bbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 15:47:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c046d93f4780bba76a18054d1e509d78 SHA-1: 522c209f01ddb4f75fea22877a4501031e783fd4 SHA-256: a40912e89ff36bbeaad8c3d076d0a2380a5ff3152e942995358e5c15d2aca0a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary function appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites through a link farm hosted on compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://www.groupenahno.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6fl1pjdpm1s5k4ld3bnuf8b4q/22070563857.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/91522560430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0m0s1tudtnfo7odg8dvehbo3nt/kiwigoradox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817876be480---vikonowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orlickachata.cz/files/files/7872253387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076eefe260b4---rewuxupogofovinafiruzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d57e1123d1312acef15f1092707d8001/vekawobosixozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorumeo.it/userfiles/files/34941389757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/55279229259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fasakizozigonede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/besavet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8b0a80ac4---91423961809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a100d7256ae---tunonesanejome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulanceservice.pl/userfiles/file/tojurasebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdfbda34bdc---92818740879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b36807f2c---ronakinerok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/bamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/79445538619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daechienglishpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96698859237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1ab896e74---81784441877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04cc09a43bfe065fad0285a78557082d/wesukufimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bir5dn7fqve0p0ot2bpbq85fct/51852714900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/memasokumafutekozapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventclub.pl/userfiles/file/pabure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09f891d783---dupaziwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=wimpy+kid+wrecking+ball+pdf+free+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15b5c12c4e9bcb4d57c7c31e3d566fad/difilofakarexedo.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_off0000c744.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC744 17968 bytes
SHA-256: 1e646395def227c4e414b20a97adaacca2bc1c039dbdb959d5c1e69d330410d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ebb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EBB 11124 bytes
SHA-256: c8452e5bdf7b402a1926880ccec3f8fc3393d064377d6e28b19ed9cd1e88213c