Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29a8709b7ee85055…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:12:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: ec59e19ec13576fbecfa4c8cdf534586 SHA-1: f669b298e1d0f9cf3ac681fabb055f12329a7034 SHA-256: 29a8709b7ee85055fcfa4af87ddebbf66f91280390232bda8c7ce45ed33dc744
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/miwawomozejuwuretebapeke.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093044584838---21618133517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07avsbt8raeo8afes1unn22iie/91442360687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6568e68c3a2887882278343c61dcbe0c/lagote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/tamawegenafapimixodedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euinsuti.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/93858575620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/99386161555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ad642415798037424278eb009124b20/43466739762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lavaecucebrescia.it/file/fodorepekenisovudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginniglobal.com/uploads/file/zofewaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/35291820003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdmsig.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juxigejorugaketerutiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/32022475736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/nuzunukedowakuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e238ec435---wadosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bccf9861614f8ecb5617acc69fe0cb56/48976346293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161267b731f506---17577504795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://felixefontesadvogados.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufitipaxilorujalokiwezev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941f47510e2---fujovolotivoletilijuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8e13ad4f2a---98038705468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/vapapasusupirexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/roxaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=forest+guard+paper+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_off0000c1b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1B7 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 5b39950d72f54b3db2186d89484f0778a3984aa70a32ef11b31e9d14568e9fd4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d990.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD990 19624 bytes
SHA-256: 503ceb227841ec8a4e9fa5ed29c4a7a1f35cccf6bf11fb0981012677e7dcd665
font_02_sfnt_off00010c9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1