Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 029b411e8a61f66b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

179.4 KB Created: 2021-08-19 10:23:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 29ecf47c0a6b1068c427df492c1ac190 SHA-1: 5b9cf70e040992274bd753cdf7ab391cb782b747 SHA-256: 029b411e8a61f66b6069f0d1ebc5a60cb76fe3ec7f98f28fd123ff032ebfead1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://wirtrauenuns.ch/images/file/75400259429.pdf
    • https://shian-jin.com/UserFiles/files/lirodubexukurusajukixem.pdf
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xogudenabeziluma.pdf
    • http://absigorta.come/file/mupureborebakakafolulek.pdf
    • http://klpa.net/userData/board/file/37621620329.pdf
    • https://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/8523257509.pdf
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161103f2e8f9f6---fobupawok.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1c62534a7618de7175adaa126ea4436/25341334127.pdf
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdcfc120a47562f0a222bcce6187fec3/14151259611.pdf
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098659898a1e---wenulatuzejevi.pdf
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088620d40c6b---61105202717.pdf
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881adaa4a16---loxevajulepugemibukisal.pdf
    • http://cdkkck.com/uploadfile/file/20210630131945.pdf
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53a66bcd1b4c6fa04691e67083f7a29e/zipitopuranu.pdf
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/rajoxetidazuxu.pdf
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c9go7ncrpu2o4tkth4m8o61hc/29461925861.pdf
    • http://zsdbiopharm.com/upload/files/giwudokuxepak.pdf
    • https://premiumtrade.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nusiwejowisedizaranad.pdf
    • https://profipreklady.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43495052982.pdf
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d55fd09988559185e95f5df52000664/torepisaziza.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=music+in+theory+and+practice+volume+1+10th+edition+answer+key+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0002310a.bin
0a80729107f1112b8cf4af0848ce9a3da321fbb06781c33ef4874c6259729e39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2310A 11508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00024c37.bin
72327b0f5dfc25981f50633fb574e9e79ec37ddcc17a77a7f5c2b2fec8da2a51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24C37 7620 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00026514.bin
2529d9aa0412136f780e322b7bc87bff872754bba5cdcdcd6893e71ce612b641
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26514 26528 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0002a3d9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2A3D9 16792 bytes