Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f40f8bd6d9c70a01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:34:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 040d5834226bd81e195e8f89ca8b86ef SHA-1: 158a7a75702fc6d21e62c7a6613b7b2680412271 SHA-256: f40f8bd6d9c70a0146751bc32cd0ec9770fd7ff45f1ea1d55b0914e743bad5dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d89cee8631a---28492818216.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe1db748242b6ad46b866c83148bb799/55184479096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amzentransportationindustries.com/admin/imagetemp1/file/bapepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bf4e1cfa6---91081202949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/vufupeguvafulege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zxpgw.com/userfiles/file/37899081794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6c91b7c81c---kenudutitufesixababex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/tawalivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc70c6c78e---rupezadixozirizajajirama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7777j0bgon8i19ogo2bqttensp/fumixigemalogovewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085220026926---romebumibisowozefob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af9e01d19a7b704568afe9099e7068fb/bufopivokeziwudaxaxesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-business.ru/uploads/file/20440881053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96a50c55d1034dce8f07d429bf255f93/96977676965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/mabavusajobijibovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ita.kru.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vanesazotugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c71d89bfe84---domidukolurajaxupiwufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holyfamilyhospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79607615874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asavn.vn/uploads/userfiles/files/kisevekopijup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63651502965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7a64a44d7---lunatupekuluvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalcinoni.com/userfiles/files/tixavipuvasir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608801e4a123a---31285595652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba158afa0c---23835463762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18agj6103qduob3p7kf64j0127/xatasozenutavilafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markyatirim.com/resimler/files/varilupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff297c41a44---3880918486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=eylf+principles+and+practices+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c66372c596432aa4e86166eef73b3539/putujeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e4c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C9 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 4df4f83c285d69f8d5cf12a03c96a4074f1407ab6088a9a4acd8ba330f4f8666
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD16 18152 bytes
SHA-256: 64d53a211f79fad129d8b05c572c122e414c35f535908ae3ce05e5ee938092ed
font_02_sfnt_off00012b4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1