Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b40fcbc21823b3cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-10-02 13:30:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: f69ab573c38fb66df4acfb509dc008f7 SHA-1: 0313c85731af5ffe14772a69d67ba0ba1f5d17bb SHA-256: b40fcbc21823b3cbdac6ba1d5fec39f090bdabcbeceed042ac15d7e169501b58
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed due to obfuscation, further supports the malicious intent by likely facilitating the redirection to these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://valubil.com/public/uploads/cms_file/cms_files/fupimiwabupuwubenitetera.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vinaaquachem.com/uploads/files/wevisiladarowowabexuvar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunil.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/79520436674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.by/userfiles/files/vajixewixorokozazaliwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b57b2a2ae06a407e1dd79660a05e89a/42046256180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taucaotoccatba.vn/images/news/files/67121543792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/75634370061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proetcontra.hu/userfiles/file/fifemijinijukukewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/buribijigegoxixeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/24489478195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79283169450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listapp.in/ci/userfiles/files/pulati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwitepigorexop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3905d74b1cd11bb4b922ac636819b298/fizazubatip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guitarenko.fr/img/files/90405918134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beverly.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/kuxesimum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/wajorometenarovevakoboru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theseadiaries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lejakadivirexelifij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/suvex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artkulinaria.pl/sites/default/files/file/forixivajunojej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/89396771142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614333d3d1516---reropimuripufovolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://postelezmasivu-brno.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xesub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161422691bc7da---21728235555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susasoft.com/upload/userfiles/files/22953612379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jtb093lfri9a1partg6ub4i53/bepuzesos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=my+toes+are+peelingPDF 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_off0000b4c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCD4 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 26f61af004f0c6f5e6d99212e13854478d9ba41d48154f1597a58ac94fb0917f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8F2 10532 bytes
SHA-256: bc37a5be77de53395c329d60c391741ab8426f907f5585fcf4979da905443140