Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29ac377f33a31a0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 15:47:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9b9efaa6d1c279ee10863139bda4d306 SHA-1: 50644412d2cf2f810e12a534f0ea4d00b39a7ffe SHA-256: 29ac377f33a31a0c2cb732b60a226cddd351682f47005d674a9dd16d6d2bd76c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The presence of embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, strongly indicates malicious intent. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support this, suggesting the PDF is designed to lure users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://matras-devison.com/upload/file/puwixiguvasezukopede.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b481636430bcdccb2d9ee6ba40d8eec8/56133844233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belloverde.net/emailer/file/60069690013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136cc82686f9---41395622647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricettebiagi.it/uploads/assets/file/7823839972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancars.eu/uploads/edytor/file/32943556779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osiindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5508783950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungototuanphat.com/img-tvdl/files/52666785956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/18184357905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sor1310.com/userfiles/file/nifalepedamozifak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384e47983c0---fewefitapujotemeledipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/963700c09ace766b3401ef56cb6fd439/levukewoviwabojawikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotterdampools.com/contents/files/63921201043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613305626028b---74970697529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.park-seversk.ru/other/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94386834575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anitacalderon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49296031497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///14868772116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxfirma.com/userfiles/file/86332072758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetesopo.eu/userfiles/files/pinoderexugizexinij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/59685494471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48495161711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaneighbors.com/userimages/kafarepita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designclarf.it/file/xasedidos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=novas+cr%C3%B3nicas+da+boca+do+inferno+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_off0000dce4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE4 10788 bytes
SHA-256: f3e079fac2fdf9d1157135c5cb82aa804f023eaa6faf461b93a42f36c80c9ba0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f56a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF56A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D7C 21232 bytes
SHA-256: 7811c1cdd8bc2c724ddb07ce46e7c6b49cfd1ff474f0389c463049fc4615e0f8