Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a29332b372d3b7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-22 14:47:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: df0489377f2eb1c546ea8a21ba034b67 SHA-1: 383a475f8a7b664e02bf08f62a46efd6ff7f2a8c SHA-256: 0a29332b372d3b7ca46eb1ab9638bbd41a5cd9d7462c3aaf8f6e2d9531a59a83
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded JavaScript and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent. The file likely serves as a lure to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=granny+2+download+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xowunekuluguvibepusurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zmiz.hr/userfiles/file/70110879501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/94119599326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doktor-ara.com/userfiles/files/79448372160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/184465d4e8a69a3f599824cbc56e50ff/bipoxasaroxedemotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meetburgerusa.com/uploads/files/mavenametazabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montoaneli.com/ckfinder/files/53356464366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5lovestartw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/vosutuwiviwosepigipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gradn.ru/uploades/fckeditorfile/84162362427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennett-legal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/57512771470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gurofexaremirafewatuzit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunbulsa.org/~ewedd2/userfiles/file/wipopabunanoleti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146e5144cdb9---33118146783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eea828fac6---31384478216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ae4fc0ee6---zukaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/40943764834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faithleader.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gisolusaramudorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tandprotheses.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26219627406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinaia-vik.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/48277651704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inciboya.com/resimler/site/files/74956255654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijdsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39919149979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/83879381178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumakuruvoice.com/tumkurvoice/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27884532914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvitraders.com/files/xetekipukogixegakipokigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancunday.com/travela/img/files/87526344086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-de-la-ferme.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gononupomegujoxobiwuris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekkercoon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29789513741.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_off0000e192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE192 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A4 18336 bytes
SHA-256: 8e13246ad87ba5004790e4ea2e732657d5b02428f6343f826098a344ec74de4a
font_02_sfnt_off00012971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12971 10348 bytes
SHA-256: fb3a934e9b0c797319d383baeb18d8b757256dd3b3b7b844c886c596f51c2d88