Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29abef40d1d0d508…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-10-09 22:32:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 125257370c5b0534d763d0401ae9a0a8 SHA-1: ae66659a09cd0cbb889e1d53c3bce3290dd41112 SHA-256: 29abef40d1d0d508fa4d73bf0157289a47c154eeceb91b54bdd8701ba83a7326
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a raw IP address in one URL and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URI heuristics are sufficient to infer malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=least+stressful+well+paying+jobs PDF link annotation
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/piritakatufapapawedap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/moguzuzoxasas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.org/userfiles/file/wudexeziku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c949010bc81062b83731093407ffe272/fufikogowuzude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arkadas.yuzuktr.com/eskortarama.com/resimler/file/vafowevuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/linojekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envirotechindia.net/admin/userfiles/file/32903768586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/vasekimoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210917_065715.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://szyoujin.com/UploadFile/file/20210902121758635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munis-roquesalbes.cat/demo/vilalba/imatges/file/fekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/vojewuzikusotow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.cityplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58363289859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sallytour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210925_CE85261C9180C1D1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-10-6/20211006113601960586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chubsorn.com/file/files/ginulesedotatezekoxomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitoad.com/bbqjoekey/files/202109132257161664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphambambi.com/webroot/img/files/76593933860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2bc2123b986b2d0ed8fbce0ea09b9ab/3170521227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ckboju601390kv39p2ddh61liu/88563135458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuathepvangohaiduong.com/images/ckeditor/files/65478666530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatdarshan.net/rgroup/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5618626884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f600126b7b---39144273413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baptistfriends.org/media/fivepunemaliropixuwaxuse.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_off0000c401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC401 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC13 16848 bytes
SHA-256: a47389f8d5b16a52ba332e86efaf902e219f033cf324954b63bbec292a038d97
font_02_sfnt_off00010713.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10713 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 438d7c2dfd7192bc1cd97ba108cea4c0fd38bf771e6a36b48b7dcf8713a74a17