Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29b503a533d21fc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-10-03 17:59:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 4b9109a284a2e42983095df0fa53fe3b SHA-1: cd7e9d5fe2c38fc70c70c3b1055b9453a4a07981 SHA-256: 29b503a533d21fc535272e3988052aa2a11a34c3aca3d96bb4a71a73299536ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to disposable or compromised hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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 http://valsadindustries.com/userfiles/file/86534728407.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kolorubursztynu.kolorubursztynu.pl/web/uploads/files/69104240948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/dutibugujetuzaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanillasky-ch.com/images/files/74796853021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6hap6d1tmb2hglhdl5t31tiusk/fejaxofemopesutilojog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmyhship.com/uploadfile/files/tobiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikexibutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specializedfacilitymgt.com/public_html/userfiles/file/diboganuwosedakasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyea.org/imageuploads/wiwitulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210909113741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/mesuzukivefamezeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buonoantonio.it/userfiles/file/99071361098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eptesteplelek.com/uploads/file/kovis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvizek.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19355582504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfrontedelmare.com/userfiles/files/jepupelagegakubemiwebobed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rnralpha.cz/res/file/85744097120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecme.site/upload/files/73872309038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cepatdaftargroup2.com/contents/files/78752297283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarexperte.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/fovimovote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/21858084481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161466ec356e50---notozofunulilopaboxuwosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161448f72598e2---59434323243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=border+collie+groups+near+mePDF link annotation
    • https://bep.semmelweis.hu/userfiles/file/dunozulurogimewakititek.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_off0000ad2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD2D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c53f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC53F 14564 bytes
SHA-256: cd690de9b92c094a7a53729e2d37a963adfd635e7d0faeb9aadabdc466db62d2
font_02_sfnt_off0000e98e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE98E 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 4af5e479dd42836cc20d9b0c82c9c85b7acad784cfa8fd62bc3d0f8b7cc72dc3