Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29b7238cde00c275…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-08-03 05:01:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5c13838292a8d466cb86b97017ea1b86 SHA-1: eed089f773a5c7d990231e8313460bcd0bca42d4 SHA-256: 29b7238cde00c2755fc278e7def1d870bada5e91ce7db2a7052137812b06d912
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehfsmjbmp16jhn71p4e87mm0m1/79554035368.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://universalestetic.com/userfiles/file/vubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdes.in/uploads/22143708856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/44625187938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05701f07265e4fc36f4794f4705c77a0/rinojavuxubusifofaxipofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/si70l0kdmn47d77dr7tefr1g1n/44332634766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/35086020037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210630_DA7EF8B7FEA743A3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestocktool.com/d/files/49864812401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seasonsblinds.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33278846138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608171ecb7c4a---41842831430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff69d195957a6ca2c4f570d48a4ec9b7/balekiruvuratibugusawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b27c20bd4---85355418040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hu837vog2c80a5130lsgjdphip/sanabolejozesujuresatinex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/88505969397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekonopuntos.com/campannas/file/rulod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78643c2140a48695e89a6d896e10819f/65785960102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/paseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilot-market.ru/new/files/file/fuwesutedavesimukidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdacable.com/d/files/fujumomilelizemosopitijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6097caab14251a42aa8d729db852b4d5/89116744509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/8750_20210603164436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873052cd1bb---39049496720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f4625adff---zomijopugidatokufezonun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831140ed003---lajuzupidutuwuwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=marvel+heroes+free+to+playPDF 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_off0001156c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1156C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012d7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D7E 17532 bytes
SHA-256: 38d33cff432b961a1d4fb7cdfa9d26141194d5a2e5793ebd576ad85099cb3ad2
font_02_sfnt_off00015b5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B5E 10432 bytes
SHA-256: a81204395a4788cba8c1e7c3b7a85fea7f382819b2bf085a9406647f9b5f9f87