Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f40cfd203a1fbf31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 11:58:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 527fa4f21b0ed4e77bc60c19278396c6 SHA-1: 9d815de8d69f67ca95cef66fc5a52d0be8247eb8 SHA-256: f40cfd203a1fbf31e79754294d372952d7d3cdfb63b7f518655270880a8cdd6e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and it contains a link farm pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload storage. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to download a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway scanning. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ac21ffb96f7aa9111166ff6440772e0/21644783755.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/24804052068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kindspring.org/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72344298294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotoner123.com/home/autotone/public_html/ckeditortest_WORKING/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82416393476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-url12shio-turbo.com/contents/files/48308307399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkokmagnetwire.com/ecodev_test/image_system/files/xibakowimafodejitokabezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nct-vn.com/userfiles/file/rigorababisotujej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/lazefuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/49933748247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/zofinagisutekesus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d7a8699ada---72228012457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614087c005490---80024207972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baoveantam.org/upload/files/61792213063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghefootmassage.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/bedebefujijutusopumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/7658377470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/43837588780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/bedogexiperolaxakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metallpress.info/files/jusemogokarad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/peloroxetirowadajesuxobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silver.jo/ckfinder/blanc/files/95586197226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/vazixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetbrashersclavoghisu.eu/userfiles/files/3661910813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poornasreehomeoclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76838687437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613177b08d63f---30616884695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/sekokigoxitapafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=is+pdanet+safePDF 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_off00010c3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001244e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1244E 18148 bytes
SHA-256: faf03cbb3b891a257a91714115ae239889d14f6f95fd12fd1dd4f9782ab28205
font_02_sfnt_off00015489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15489 10084 bytes
SHA-256: 223f944be9f892408fafe8555c0e65cc684bd93d89892a5b076b554f0abbea27