Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29a321968a148bef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 03:29:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fd270d096248f08bb7a99b1938d84c21 SHA-1: 61971b22ed127873a9ea93181d9a0e8d5d317641 SHA-256: 29a321968a148befcf75dcf77c25c2ec794bc3622b69ace960eb89b3095ee98d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised WordPress installations, as indicated by the 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a108ff03b2dba8de0f09f3eabdbfaa23/53478981573.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/nimejabatepabewuxaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3b313045bac17618ce508a6943da98e/66343278327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/en7nbij50kfaqrkat6lp45qe6h/7297411268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607954bab2976---jitelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e5e66676f---monivelofuzirozokadamida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyline64reunion.com/clients/e/ec/ec378541aa9b73e2b99de5ca5545ec21/File/kisesole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095320a62559---80243852878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71c11d0eab---31852314924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc42a6c1ce---kexugozikokevigad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab694884540ce59fbad7fd6b41abfdba/95033280094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf30837a2c35f1b04c9b25d4231a6ddb/7300835261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphambambi.com/webroot/img/files/79125310686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/wimewejibavoxufusugirase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remproekt-m.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12411932026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c8j591dbp1trm7pbcsjkor5nb/fukenevatoruxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e128003fe08746309b8ca0994b12d9f3/82462948788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/tusupekat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/glpi3f1efc13omfbhr2n7oruc5/16059981864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8dd1b31202---72858469274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2j2qim8m1k7h3c8hp5d4i87phj/27366699996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/12368837581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylowa-pss.pl/userfiles/file/tunefotaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=positive+adjectives+that+start+with+tPDF 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_off0000f57b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF57B 17520 bytes
SHA-256: fd033290550d3a02f1f564847fc56b59bfb9336196a179c5cfc607712ed9e0f4
font_01_sfnt_off000122b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013aca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ACA 10600 bytes
SHA-256: e57ae9fe188c6da1dec30973a011b140c93a38312b5ed945f3d513aee20cd8c7

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