Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b40335fadba9a122…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 15:04:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fbd1dc9d2273d7bd965b50af5467a87d SHA-1: fc6aea729aa1e1c9a6c72c65134549b124403cba SHA-256: b40335fadba9a122697855b33e307f451c0f95287dc11fd693274707c6be9510
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to websites that appear to be compromised or used for hosting malicious content. The presence of 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicates a deliberate attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+filelinked+on+android+tablet PDF link annotation
    • http://szhlfz.net/upload/19829225533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/nozivekaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/mipisomatedawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineuniverse.us/userfiles/file/nofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ta-taiwan.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/kifitusubag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriramashramssschool.org/userfiles/file/8910126967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafjbawrcdgsodbdciig4a5v.xn--p1ai/pict/file/27216891042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quimicahj.com/admin/userfiles/userfiles/file/lumazoguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0c011ae60---ragunola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metnar.pl/web/uploads/files/bofupezejufizugorodokitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/15224049780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jopirubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-buhgalter.ru/userfiles/file/dokofapala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202109100953586618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/nosog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/80766b978de3b8a4b0aa7fe372192f08.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockefellersgold.hu/editor_up/70560490493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4psiqdhesmdq71hd9p5vgh0k4/56670737466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vividconcept.in/userfiles/file/jasesiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venefoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96892254080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144dd208b522---nilawovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/laladobuwekojubat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nv9qv85o6kce2cbh599jahoh3b/23177776770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paardenwelzijnscheck.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/xikesuvupefusejidusugam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ed93a1912ba2857ddbdd2c5e69f0569/juwafenukimimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roseeskin.com/userfiles/file/20210907064700.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_off0000d9d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9D5 18132 bytes
SHA-256: 486dcfbffc63682fb97cd079afe3706ad8a1dcf8fbb1a31569021f8c939aded9
font_01_sfnt_off000108e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F9 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 86405adab162030c6e13a98dc002454ccf92fc83f7694f59d69d7cff8813d334