Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b40fe41a7d57a742…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-07-16 19:10:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: cecde5a445908b637acc3cae5d5ab087 SHA-1: d598d1d73126bba939159e980e1c218247d61043 SHA-256: b40fe41a7d57a74226d743d3e8dbd0d20e4951abb608a96154790473b9bc34b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of disposable hosting further indicate a malicious intent to obscure the true origin of the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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 http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/130887936160b6b982a8773.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/affa5396ef677b5ce91cf8033e193bf3/40649431457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3b4d3f256f---nawixogemejaburoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/gumofoxaruxafikatugiboni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b12f83273a---bajebasafez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071dbce7c6ea---84540713090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787d4caab8a---noduwofaxevalimox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021060123050873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yar-net.ru/userfiles/file/87132570903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075966aafe92---rinogefudakolimexefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/559431c6875813b54047754cc967fef9/44183221790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2c3cfe315e7abf0bd644bd93126aa86/lodevodafesifenerul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hlar5iihts7qc54eg2e73bgm9i/veveriwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ah7cjah6odopp2kuk34hjica1j/63733395114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05f345b6de31af526590be43827ec10e/pokegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b91pr0a9ota8n0b91a5ln5krb7/2196082416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85926d0216---xapuromawumavolamin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turatabor.hu/media/96530316288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/17537895623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronocertif.com/userfiles/file/saxikagetulaxumoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rm4rfmh2lpvoutkc5jh5tpefg3/599902434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3ba265f7a---49542727407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7624d89b85---83868921889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bae19bf869---lopakumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsinphar.com/uploads/files/21338398696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/48234389046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfba7c571fe---92843897783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+lossy+compression+and+lossless+compressionPDF 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_off0000fe94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE94 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 558fc4a1e0b4af56efd1eb2830d2b2ff711ff65887997bab63dffed10e0d828c
font_01_sfnt_off0001186c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1186C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001307e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1307E 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 8f7071bd322022a0024847dde54ccf4269001cdcf0d352f078873158ed2f4104