Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29546a5499e50838…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.0 KB Created: 2021-07-31 07:48:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c00b6e43b0559360250bf9dcf7c1bf41 SHA-1: 193d9b58a76e7496231037d6a17436722e0e1e40 SHA-256: 29546a5499e50838f710fd80394292f1e489261a6ca20e6f72769f40f20376b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9867

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://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca29771e3f---38532115060.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vmqvrr33dcoui3kptt2v79kjo/sisarokoditud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91bingsbd8gf5q4og57skoeuv3/34790524979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/51555976695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7884f145b---89894484337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/userfiles/file/zonelufobip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2160111248---80477517122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/30259913023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/ruzexafasapudodiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/77953828324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33900aa6f0aaf4a9dc1603f9135a069b/lipekexupoverozuditir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9477514850---magevapokomuxefitokitaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/86785245292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/kuwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62296989575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed3115118c1ae08bb2985d95e4e69137/tabalozadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609144a5c7630---befuwimoguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/764f6fd2b5b3bd2e2f7fa6de658d4340/69381665143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/043764404dcae74aab3985bd380b44e4/lomomubalepokolanigam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/boluselogejerenuninoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podushka.by/files/files/pidurubodomamiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54a165fa5996cd1d4e3331a6a8feb316/75106077209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tumsad.org/img/editor/image/file/ninuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/78078305021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83159819ab420be9910dfd178acb7540/ropazezaferudosevinivixar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-tta.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/rafufamomimoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/kijixuranilarufixiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=hearthstone+how+to+beat+lich+king+2020PDF link annotation
    • 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_off00012b7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B7B 18284 bytes
SHA-256: f7fa222bce9e6feb230e99bc7c356e0f972a8564807f6b51e3e47c192a3711ed
font_01_sfnt_off00015be9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BE9 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 741d462e1071e20bcecc99df59ab13ffb86f583fce65943bb959b8605f9e2461
font_02_sfnt_off000175b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x175B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1