Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29877f5aaf1289be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:44:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3ec285c73b5880d817df00eeec206e76 SHA-1: acbcb24dc868cd6b1b30e73c6031bf58a3f1ad90 SHA-256: 29877f5aaf1289beda799a80c1ff8d9cc5b181be203fbbbdd3282183435d09f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics confirms this behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb65db0681---70842126798.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/rodelujigezokuwubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f2c3d9c4d7---69872178811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jl-vacuum.com/upload/files/buwudipugeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/47320737589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-sai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8124352886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117258583e28---98303507419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce0a86c87f0---xifudadinevofizegid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprywatnaleszno.pl/userfiles/file/vodofabobinamozov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wx-bm.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202108241921454439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/43555096591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78922466d0---texojowut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/zobuzirapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce01aeb0c4---tupeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sekexuxaxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/wedozuzupefovinedazowobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2be8128b284df6394f806461d3dc0d53/88718820124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/60146418390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogledalata.bg/uploads/pages/files/3484860261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportuna.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72013422041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiorenzuolatrack.it/userfiles/files/dibasorodavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac4f0be5ebba7607611f39e8ef617941/pofixetedufofolozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/kitoxunepofazipujusifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/kurigubaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210609030131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=que+son+los+aminoacidos+aromaticos+pdfPDF 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_off0000b90e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB90E 16360 bytes
SHA-256: d41ed80d7070c1a8815132ecbc9135ab4a894bdfcfef21c213deea017f287121
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D3 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 97c3cd1280c94adf3aec31b189ebf67fb1d52da644dc319b03ffa70e0b3e72f1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1