Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 029e14e1b4c6e87a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 10:26:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6f065f0cde64aabc2694b74d434c1d83 SHA-1: df0ae456291027878e3b0ae360bd982a6d944e80 SHA-256: 029e14e1b4c6e87ab6876febc02b8e4e01b0f862dfc04162d838ecf93b1fc926
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or spam campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm structure itself is the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=upper+back+pain+after+drinking+alcohol PDF link annotation
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/95110995412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c566f167017---24805856794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brod-plovdiv.com/images/75383862583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb571310583e87c0773b8949f90129a8/41092284237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/53472979422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haphadoor.com/upload/files/57371148514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97b8bda6ace7d179aea7fe067cec97d1/93069884274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/59840544670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d97805fa53---90763893613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d24fe5745e2d10bfa3c59fe104cd8b6/24530112723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/kutixowadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607141e2b3b53---munomewowavepedosarexagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7de76jdbkqj0hoeoi7a12dpcs5/97214120030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/mafofulib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b611429c791---nibavaniwazakorokuzari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b88927490f30fd2368cd20f9dba0baa/rakanasito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940ea349f23---jifigovepikizikutive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovelyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10378898540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/44176375850.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_off0000e603.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE603 16744 bytes
SHA-256: 6ace1639f69e664c35288d7db69d1d615f210b6cc1cdd6242616a1b8dd1d26d2
font_01_sfnt_off00011167.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11167 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001297e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1297E 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 7caf50a68ff61fac1b55035a819efbb14adac9e28e1f1617228de11ef44a3461