Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29a895cf2115034a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:46:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7f19c4247b0b84539f887816f9a6b943 SHA-1: cd26d09d7bae8c00afc2a470d4a45af64731217e SHA-256: 29a895cf2115034aa2210d4e2ecbca2d290d0c9a4974f6b9535c319875d2c2ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d54cd292547---55985244190.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/1115653297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07ca6b327ca59ece54e3a5f3b7fe7f8e/fexufawoginuzudinexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/katejusodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/47638019803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a6e938588---piguseruvukelixizegofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/voleponuminadunalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm3l5l38gebfchohijt8v2gl96/36978098478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be905195d85---96853573246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090257cbf09b---12790017094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessservicesuk.com/userfiles/file/38922892654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/dinugaxabominogijinaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c9848c17b---zuzupusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/mikazujutepanaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce2e3b5a8c794679f86e015ab825d3c0/vaxineleneragejitusijagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=best+bookies+for+footballPDF 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_off0000ea41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA41 10388 bytes
SHA-256: ae8f0239c7f2ca2d17a1c5c9060b8d23095ad28245e1fd59354fabdc6a3ef5a2
font_01_sfnt_off000101fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A0F 16964 bytes
SHA-256: e1dc2b79552aba464213e84745583c462a12edbcdac9d3fa9c18e9cf6665df01