Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29b1952fa6171d2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:28:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1cf00d10f5f9a2d3716e9649aed86bbe SHA-1: ec66bfd19fea02874eee28b8338ae14772b8d71f SHA-256: 29b1952fa6171d2d28d411805b93254293bff5ad2c1bf16bbaf9970dda913f10
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The file's structure and the presence of these links indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive content, likely leading to credential theft or further malware infection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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=variante+bac+2009+m1+rezolvate+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/993e99cb1768a2b53c9d13a4e84a1e8f/walotajijuvuguvale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.neosynapses.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6t174rakvp688tt2gje7hbn9ht/46183377212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcongluc.com/upload/files/risofutejikubixapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saconsultancy.com/userfiles/file/33286222800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161239f4b7c493---95725030576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/tupigotuwakapadinirosita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee3bf4dc2cd---12090604718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawooelcs.com/upload/userfiles/2021/08/files/210807191155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3746d04f13---41779867758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/delevubusuneno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b47bdba9488738890557e94baf35391/30387053316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da373e6696c---zivosajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160914c0041c8c---wudugusumatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03d8236b467e2871a67f9cbfcd2a28d0/gokuwolek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vupodup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaalu.com/luutru/files/saxalizukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/pobalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwayinn.com/image/files/20210723_044714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baoveantam.org/upload/files/33837076972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d713e89253a---zesujakedowaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foulardfotografando.it/file/77570969393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa9070a4ddb1e348d54143c22b8c922a/21244800647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/kolagiwelek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ut1j7dmd4ttns0nraui9sst0g6/48212698967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatmfc.com/media/ftp/file/67892217717.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d70b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD70B 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 319c1d6b5a9dfe45ef2c311a2d5ba00a192ff2e3c7a2103ac7a27dba584f9d59
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010498.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10498 11308 bytes
SHA-256: a94b0f38e7df22e670fe6bc27f28e7835b91f05a04f4d243ffeae314540c2ef4
font_03_sfnt_off00011f10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F10 17632 bytes
SHA-256: 7099993eb8c478536e573e806e50b065dffbea0c2452b9ab6df3c6af9252a808