Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29a2de91931d1188…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:47:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c7a58b8fc8893267ec56a97991f6ff4e SHA-1: 9334d9950fafbee971b3e193b72230c2148ba989 SHA-256: 29a2de91931d1188065171e7470752ff21ae2ba2bc7067654dd90085d3104ffa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating phishing and trojan behavior. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious or phishing websites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to exploit user trust by presenting a seemingly legitimate document that leads to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=behavioural+science+books+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://master-sign.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufagijuzajuzejotozepate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olivia-mitzvah-2020.com/clients/b/ba/ba4af741f15bd7b6832e7848668b55b8/File/51412253200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/85397284383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cbd6bc5409---dulenazaxuserik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607086d9babdb---84548707060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/69694301435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risme.vn/files/20323647317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160991356a687b---85572508460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/fofiluwomixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikolsbeauty.com/webroot/f/uploads/file/lukixugireginuvewasuvav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dochoiotovn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/mojenapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fff6209b546---sigisariz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eksan-ltd.com/userfiles/file/tuxopumuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egdodc59q7hmm9rii7u5f9acq1/64240707987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6660b51aabbfb7ae14df305f6288bd6b/14797489077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96ec768f07ac9a3012f2b809daa25aca/26350069776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54bsspltq9mvqepd2k74rvqqvs/80081739006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84247512409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agriturismoilcolle.org/userfiles/file/55777500280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae4a4c68fda---jajoruvufipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medosojewellery.com/userfiles/files/44287758238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwessex.com/uploads/files/81148690423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rodolphe-blanchet.fr/Rodolphe/fckeditor/file/69017210022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/64866128942.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_off0000d996.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD996 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1AD 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 12743cb9103fcdb8a53189349fbf63b0576990469e10fb10e0c011a0a6ae9507
font_02_sfnt_off00010b2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B2D 18312 bytes
SHA-256: bed994d7b1027fd0a9782361ef05144efc87e44a79cd9b26ea620707003847f6