Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29b1df794712ecf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:50:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ea19b3df4de01baa0c782ab093a794c0 SHA-1: dcdbd92cd239beaafbe005b9e245f474645a5c2b SHA-256: 29b1df794712ecf52db5514532cdde416c74566cd0f701a4a1f7b2d7ae57c3ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDFs. This suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=government+spending+on+advertising PDF link annotation
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160becb043e447---fovivovavoledezagozinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/834689b2691a1e6922e791b53092d810/nafubifobaxejigezonit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44s3emhs7b21ddd2evkq2sa8pd/xovenokepixidebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf675d020c---82383291308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/fudujutizox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44avte2n30hk34adovgrcme9o4/90540653740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b35eada584e---vogatelule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrm5npba2tj5tm985dkce3jniv/46473679881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpvotb05lnjv2keor4adtsai26/resabukosugowadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c8e9ab21f---zezefobejunevobamuniselux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17bef1dd13b73c7c77ba9caad641504b/48431089937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2252a8e96582315e52b8b8448d13af0/94540386719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/werimowosiginevoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/9091002302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aebf12a1b98e7bf7717b5b599c20637/49868367262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42376ba0ab72bf52fa6af03ad1502de6/98331512280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9bthpbpo3cb2hpopd8qncesd3/puxosisibit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof1971.com/clients/74120/File/56107456198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/figobojuviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balustrady-metalik.pl/files/91052192753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/99073434091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606c7d28da64c---4789721128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/1809794367.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_off0000fea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA1 17608 bytes
SHA-256: a75c92e25c073e3bb28f04ccd1b082bec6bbf0aa8af00428e3a7f529f1431fc4
font_01_sfnt_off00012c5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14473 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 90dbde45952e216feddecaf53b6846c7ba5c31092254118e494ec16cbb103c35