Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d40838f5c2539bf8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 18:08:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 41d6ff127ccc7b389996a1de7a288571 SHA-1: c48d755d3a139dd9889151347fecc8279b8e5026 SHA-256: d40838f5c2539bf874cf22958027415f369f0ad787a5662c3b1b61ecc188cc27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised websites that host further malicious PDFs. These links likely serve to distribute phishing content or malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfqirrbi7do6b56ni78729ajs1/nosoruf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/89847939942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c12c789f82c11eb1aa4c1f948ef3cf1/fizaxawawipebotuzonirelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/33158192768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/mubevinezizopupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ed2f12333592058f741b454eca11505/51547088310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1obvnuen0uo215ikjh867turri/forixeluriviwigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-grad.ru/fck_editor_files/files/28676093010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/55458616376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac9f056e761811c63d7904e901626d0c/77587888762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u2ga5f1f2qn2rt0bdukmkd5nl2/70151788255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa4897dfcac0c1334b8117f06011e957/fegowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/vewilozozinesupokofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/visefegepoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/641f4e7e3bcd57caef12c65353e145e7/9881954437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb4df49c4df---fabafolofakaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5f5719d02---neguzivugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingbeat.com/contents//files/batiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607208a74a4a7---63589864911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096728463050---sutudeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839a091bf08---sebavafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608820b66de6d---28645380433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betheaskssd.com/flash/betheaskssd.com/file/65083624105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=skin+complex+meaningPDF 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_off0000c688.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC688 17544 bytes
SHA-256: 3deed0daf466e475c5ba9f892d681f184907f46ac6a8045536ad0b33a2fa5b01
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CCC 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 9910f4cf0730df020d2fd62a7e3e65d883a005795c8f196e84a91eda9513a00e