Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f140a37b6154408d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:56:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9264491b1bd19c0939cfd485a73c5aba SHA-1: 2656ff2266da67ddab4a8b6e3cc4b6be6855f65b SHA-256: f140a37b6154408d866b43d5ed0e8cf02929ee036f6b19f250a3b05dcf078efc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/naladamasegotozuponogi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728cf41a777---20236215444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ee0d0f01d3321136108ef77683add08/72069746329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f59dd744135---81200539703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160def3b513da7---69643417056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210605225358168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sage-chem.com/image/files/20210713_175429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081caff66368---keviviverijilif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/wuduronepijaduxorokiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesquebec.com/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/15068131556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/50796408609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.org/uploads/files/87950573264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613471d6bd526---22178833280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/retiginalebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32b2d64f33d7536c67da2f2e33f344ad/89473498665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23306516577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/3203348413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveletrust.com/basefile/traveletrustcom/files/fukivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antae.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/42090629685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5c0cbdc07---72266647879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21969415881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-url12shio-turbo.com/contents//files/gizaxivepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecormier-menuiserie.com/www/upload/files/70634624468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/wazudubujulufamirisamovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8323de290---82931793069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=effective+ways+to+teach+vocabulary+pdfPDF 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_off000133b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133B3 18968 bytes
SHA-256: 466ad3709198c58eb4c1ff88303551c8b6c095e0ad6e36e69d89c4cf5be13854
font_01_sfnt_off0001651e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1651E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017d35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17D35 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 6a9423d8be5c84af241c38ebcf5d540b8c7c680b1858937d79eb71f87f4665a9