Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d40cb9710247cd35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 20:22:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 463e39453c32f21fd700c907b0125238 SHA-1: 2c60dd22e4fa6df12eb25fc966541aa9dcdfec3a SHA-256: d40cb9710247cd35930156200e360c333646fb1ed6bd0d5241751f6a050deeb9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous unknown URLs indicates a broad distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd040ca5f27056ed6cdb966e1a7a02a3/68724268898.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zogukemizurepiregenajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bengalroys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapazufadaxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangtatmj.com/userfiles/4513411268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e39f54df6588c21403893a5f717f51e4/22192664400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/83616843273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0b3033b570cb150d10c223d42133017/47884491732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rca7dlj7lq10558re3mtsk37bo/76652915317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anquocrealty.com/uploads/image/files/941612171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/28720187125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210907_012343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrajacreation.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/rezumelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunian-co.com/other_files/File/44385816494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/ziveragam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berettyotv.hu/userfiles/files/52858677281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/82861960197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wavenavopopetagutasotukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bowinoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orrizon.ru/images/file/64517393450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2o2b17g32e8xisqq.com/userData/board/file/58135793994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themis-lex.com/userfiles/files/61784231003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/43529589594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debden.org/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • https://gea99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rexuvotawomojov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptindia.com/newsimages/file///jupetosulupiwadur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=best+brick+breaker+androidPDF 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_off0000d449.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD449 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 87eb56264e45d41aff4ce617cb665e70ff7ef0ffac2317a010d953cbd4dc8ee2
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117D8 10600 bytes
SHA-256: f24a0793dc68df096d31e6fe25839c2cc5a88be739e6f52fcf8c4f050e8725bb