Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fa29669bc929c79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-10-07 08:14:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 0dddcd416acb12cd990fa6223e5b5b78 SHA-1: 043f4887e70433073cecc2efdb95d952bd8bd2b3 SHA-256: 0fa29669bc929c7999cab9152c7a8bf11cb94afed692eff3a1527bcf72431beb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI indicators and link farm heuristics strongly supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=give+me+some+head PDF link annotation
    • http://mindatpeace.us/uploads/files/70189236129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnmmalta.com/userfiles/file/nimibazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.es/d/files/finagizowijumir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vconsole.com/ckfinder/files/32459503059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/zotefuxurafijurowuzuliri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijfbacknumber.com/editor_up/72451075862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrlita.ru/archive/image/file/97270984439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f9f2ba52eb---zijivufivivogovapijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmercury.com/uploads/files/fadiwujisisuxisuwiniteki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andreivieru.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruzunus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/97622687367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya889.com/upfile/files/20210928230232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52382827443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161450f29b0de4---87101445855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65967464336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f84a18f609---43891065265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubivina.com/Images_upload/files/diwetixobazopame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/29816880906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/fodizosomukipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/09/file/202109041838551920.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_off000100f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F9 19004 bytes
SHA-256: 4b97891d47df52a88e49e3ff1130810a42655182a7af7bb38386e26d893b7031
font_01_sfnt_off000131ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014a05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A05 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 282339be2a966f5f1f7255de25057ddf411fe38ca028bc3613673781505d0074