Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29403e866b664102…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 00:30:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 295e9d155ee7b1a2c4aeab38f3108622 SHA-1: 1a1c83b180451f494473085baeb7a129f1298f49 SHA-256: 29403e866b664102935a28560a2b3e0e445397dc2ae55e08e8bf06f93eada33c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites and appear to be part of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver further malware or phishing content. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to these compromised sites to download additional malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a189059d1---3981472637.pdf
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d885d427aae36d3798b147d9bf3d3b34/48093752641.pdf
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/56320368657.pdf
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75ae34863e4bf195598069fed5575bfa/29936481780.pdf
    • http://aaz.sk/editor_uploads/files/9887007426.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d14ce133de---mixesip.pdf
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ab316f3ff4bf13ce1a3159304224453/lagakemegozazasoduw.pdf
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/13826581818.pdf
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1953017361---3256246451.pdf
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/65496744122.pdf
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/031acc68b4a4fe935d242a28a875d6d8/jipupububosuj.pdf
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f742fefd07---41146226833.pdf
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59981500430.pdf
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/99363604112.pdf
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1a34636bf716914be665b816643b033/13802858980.pdf
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/wiludotomeromoxonofemaniw.pdf
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddfd6264e1---4911775408.pdf
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7304987cb---78930179446.pdf
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/rulizaru.pdf
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7cd40f67a6b05558f9c39b80c55261c/fifixuwini.pdf
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/wunifefigikivexuvumubi.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4dc26fb91---texegopufaxafijapegup.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e9c300781---53880745734.pdf
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/90440762441.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=cairmal+puppies+for+sale
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe17.bin
3a1693193e1423ca6d3bf01631b9d59b779bb1dd0c52b41f344e8c61eab7898a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE17 10448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000115c7.bin
29ebd4f5de3ed7a0aa9c1107fbdcdda70ce008ffb12a2f6ee9255a25b52fe2bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115C7 17436 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014345.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14345 16792 bytes