Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 029355aa52776b64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 16:06:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0788cf477a8ce8e6dd0e44a501b98302 SHA-1: 7fb674a84a8a94cab78c4b041d1c1d2f153d6804 SHA-256: 029355aa52776b64cb564a2af047c4a295f057450b404c98fd2bcbc61848c4e5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_URGENCY_LURE' suggests the document's content attempts to create a false sense of urgency to prompt user interaction with these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=arteries+and+ventricles
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714c567fddb---11750028701.pdf
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876c8ca1d10---38710777959.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5fb2eabb9c7fec6769ad65d714e3b76/3688379276.pdf
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081914a41965---damuxezef.pdf
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/043a59dfb81f099ebb009d2f9a79d2e5/roremolowogigikos.pdf
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a79db8f344bb95a44a0f68b68d490f0/42588855738.pdf
    • http://cuhs1981.com/clients/8/82/82ca37c076ec4232796cb58ed009bb3a/File/80278238050.pdf
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f7b7773412---mixiwof.pdf
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexawoxena.pdf
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ef01c9524---bedokeva.pdf
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bed58d38b20a78bbc2ea150cc35df20d/nopotenogubi.pdf
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c8b6ce9014d213a4952ca0b83b7c6d6/gowofutuneraxelavi.pdf
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b322562c847---viratavewiwipatus.pdf
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a71fa48743a7e43e45b90bc62eb3b8d/rudivitojujut.pdf
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828b170d446---tukixaf.pdf
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqrj1dmd5c46cant0016j7o65v/18834432813.pdf
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074326c820d9---nabofiwelivaxazavido.pdf
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/34316725248.pdf
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9d63db3f0---gunamojokumonin.pdf
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/meu908u90rb3jd0vnr4qgauksn/76561432270.pdf
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b122dba58d7e2727422b462583a8c2c5/kovelif.pdf
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/3212075171.pdf
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0da0ac724fef8e88d0d382871b6a45bb/xivete.pdf
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f281a9562c---xuxijopagibebem.pdf
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cf66af8861022a13a5b14cd68719887/lulowademujepilib.pdf
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c70b47d61647cf6bc51139df4e89cac5/18950919209.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8b4.bin
047293d8403c27883d1ff1de1ad609df16e3079825303092364ff3a86c44f468
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B4 16608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000123b9.bin
835e5bdd9b2e0549b5b2bb8aa9f0090a4da46df9478d2c86138b2445a51e99d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B9 10292 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013b0f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B0F 16792 bytes