Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c40690ff5f453717…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:03:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 156c467d9c55aacd6c86d20d11836f34 SHA-1: 03fb478af694c3251a05c8a12a801f1dd07dfba9 SHA-256: c40690ff5f4537175a263b6e05fcde7d3970ee4604c89cff5b57b01f2410d096
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm directing users to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/futidiniwivol.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aquaprosmart.com/userfiles/files/zeginunogimerotilofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfa0090e35---75986968279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/350324a5729fbc98a558ce6ead7d42a3/vematoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rkdb2jh3198aeth2eft1tidb2/21090523095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edanieltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210609_A4225FED12A9748F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/jotototixesifotepemozusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eibmkde9kvno6qlrkrebhk5n8v/14784184072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/kogisusaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b912e257f0c---soxapizufopidegolugipasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/94874055504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/puketezopetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubkfg79lvhcl6varht4115upr2/73619711005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d22f7c8337---30270621904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abdfe8d1c5b---21722895139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fi9500vgs9o3t64dhnoodirk03/50012847174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/1730771828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/80418039000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.de/fichiers/newsletter/file/xujabuzukofipimanonenus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/xeduradaziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c4emse55b7k7oqt82cc0o340a/1917546173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a646ff40ff8---bazobolowolotuguguxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83ab41e9a76d6d0409f26e9b51ce750f/tuvujexep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/35219907130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvatoria.by/UserFiles/files/83944264259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gj9ch5hgb8i5q3it7u0lt561c4/33469525913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=hemolytic+uremic+syndrome+signs+and+symptomsPDF 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_off0000f337.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF337 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 023c48e837b7311a4e47e3eb50e304d04cd205e0cc0d375f607ea3bcdf989ce4
font_01_sfnt_off00012107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12107 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 28c46b86f2dd0d924ecc6f06335e2bf2dc4da10a03c137654ecb8a31a45d7adf
font_02_sfnt_off00013a8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1