Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 029c049d30179c3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:02:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ab7502f8955fa2d724e216152e84063d SHA-1: 1893d850bf709ff6907dcb2d61b38f259da726f9 SHA-256: 029c049d30179c3f49cd82d28cf92dd368b7d6d7363ace710a398a1ab1761789
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially engage in SEO-based phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://matsusushionline.com/uploads/files/savimajiva.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.examnotice.in/uploads/files/79842604939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osrclass1967.com/clients/8/84/84e84eb3bb32f45446e669e24fea3ebc/File/52429271006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faxujajapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ulelr42ok7gt8oc3249m1bpks/lumeguwoboniwusewijuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d443a45ebd---xuxerobeguges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deam45j71lhu4uils301oifr10/33913446896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fbf2f6725caff1174f3e97c0be1ecdb/sevupatetol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edc1530d13---6113440958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/tidixegogeboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4043c36c90cd4f0cfe2f8aca06def525/mokomojeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c44cf689c294cb748de0b23c179f6eb/wikibufosum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galerie-louise.be/userfiles/files/96959498260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesen-und-schenken.de/userfiles/files/29779388841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc6e6f3247d145f769cbf9b60e6939de/litonosixotuzun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/bilolemaremewigakiroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/30310575467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e5c8ce612928f48bc3efae4750a0568/50141059286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ca747e806---xilajisumijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/siretemoverugimosujefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f0bec96ff---78555610594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32j73p01l4f12r2ttvqu0ssq62/xedusovaxivagud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/651638174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=shooting+an+elephant+george+orwellPDF 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_off000117d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012fe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FE5 17164 bytes
SHA-256: f14951c71f589bc4da122a689c06b7775ab829c8dd4875337e49d4a3afcd965f
font_02_sfnt_off00015c80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C80 10524 bytes
SHA-256: d67ce29f9e7ae5bd850ae7b79324066cf291ebadc65cee9dd40abd9a20a5bc3b