Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 029e8966e25eea36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:56:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bcae63fb3aebd555eb3f01a24c5b6e7a SHA-1: cc0bcedada7a09bbc646837068eea1f43f0d942b SHA-256: 029e8966e25eea36366673818d959648515acf2e13816619a25edf25f8507e53
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the PDF structure points towards a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+delete+an+email+sent+on+outlook PDF link annotation
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610751fe356a0---47813992165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitvaartverzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/12517589068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/94248916599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/930a36e06b086a8238f123e153d8036c/20564681476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c9c33704896f3a2f058399abaee2c1b/vuzotobewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/84948971996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipsbrothersmill.com/clients/6/65/65192871cce8a6e36080a9ebd2808b02/File/gevewanozagedunukigipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4c1c294e7---gipis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luchetti.it/userfiles/files/51085458728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.ru/upload/file/49150351384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badaranquehablar.com/userfiles/files/vamapig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/68899234398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cristalensi.com/public/File/sikonuxizeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/gijifutopabotebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/84040956911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8iv65d5bb93vj0l9v8tirhdkvs/11209529703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/79206642625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086aaef9399d---pipuxipunipujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/83844804501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicopinto.it/userfiles/files/bakebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28592d9928---bezelomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artistalexanderkanevskyroyalshakespeareglobetheatrelondon.com/clientMedia/file/pumenefunazaruzagujoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/21793501409.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_off0000d7d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7D6 18056 bytes
SHA-256: ebadc60ac122c6987c33744199611541f33cdd8c62976563ea3bd17e2b27a632
font_01_sfnt_off000106c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C3 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 6ddf9348e7c4cda44727c32b4737156857ddb2318727317a0feedc00f300bce3
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1