Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29b48ddbc7075451…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-18 14:16:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 216e9a5b19d946852f0d825b5ea1c9e9 SHA-1: b9a4acb134de0195eaea2215eeec70f769162ef5 SHA-256: 29b48ddbc7075451f24fb26e576335b3818347b7eb30237b605bc75fe172f9b4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, combined with the 'Urgency/Deadline Lure' heuristic, suggests a phishing or malicious download attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm indicate it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/71793498725.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/9881948956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b16bb5f6dd---konarodakowidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f208932f614b78479e35be46f5b047d6/48497444871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamebonda.com/ckupload/files/mazoluxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cc2a873af3e3e3f13986492b477f203/76749898132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/sisakilagilafibumabej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/vizosigufim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99a495e3c5---lelizosivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67302a8cd05e083afae559d3e0b0629a/38465671310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/zofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dfd4b2599e6e6348d24ab9191e38c38/waxekomilonol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1536172f47538ac0b682abc478c486df/fiwasim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2293387c2c---31197569733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2dadb509e---lorulusulateganugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whatproperty.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xepox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22e3dec044---46138858296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe5b8c6de28b92bc6576e67e700847ab/xuwobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3bc5d0f65---42830266821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saatgaamkansarasamaj.com/admin/uploads/files/22687116803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/33614972648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33b1f81d9c6334caf5626a0651d88897/45713993802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/10252573991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=3d+modeling+software+free+ipadPDF 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_off0000f62c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF62C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E43 11004 bytes
SHA-256: dcb36fdf29665f476325e664cd4cc485fbf46baa0a0415da634075f4b8b9f48e
font_02_sfnt_off000127a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127A1 17080 bytes
SHA-256: 2d6f29f2caacc309ddf00931360cad9402e9873f84808ae3ad44ffb3dc512696