Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29b5e9edfea7dc86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:14:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 697b0c678e23f6d1af4516d2fd66ba6a SHA-1: 32e6e2c86295ff0f4116bde0b6509d9e6b5771ab SHA-256: 29b5e9edfea7dc861c37d7d88cf0c96c0425875034e1c8f08ace4c72d9613c67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=medidas+de+dispersion+central+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://zzhqhi.com/d/files/86969463295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57cf6bbbbf---91745333062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vendingchat.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/robeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdravi-kromeriz.cz/files/file/zonuzeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fade724390e892e1c0f933e158c1098e/fitazipebiparukukojorere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/lojejaxoviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolinterier.sk/upload/files/movoxunik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorofilmes.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20354161798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eais1fien06n668c0kek18b00s/xuxalosusabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffb00e6a4a61c8a53fc4fda6bb0ee08e/23490033267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b5079f728---92595112074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hutechsolar.com/upload/user_upload/files/13864050201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcolley.com/uploads/files/95920538345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buchtel1967.com/clients/26382/File/22184603249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenderup.ro/mm/file/gunogojomusosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9cfaca1e1a---88581029186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/035a1d95d8c541c5f8a41f53c774a38f/25044117821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/10191903546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/49079191105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6618bd7b9d---20913267957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitree.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37441243998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodthings.us/userfiles/file/juzofef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ccc5b2469afbe8623abef8eb583b31c/46395432950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzeptowski.pl/file/29189142254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/868825b9b6f71d4fb9a39cd3b0677ed0/latapifakilarij.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_off0000ca17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA17 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 95d8811a96048b632b4603284a85bbe5b546abe065550535be6704b928d600cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e26e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE26E 17912 bytes
SHA-256: b894328ce63464344cdf5dfc2dc3080579ac67cfc29dddbfbc05faec7aa3b3be
font_02_sfnt_off00011034.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11034 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1