Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29bb023805f1c786…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 11:42:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 0f466e156daa211c65a9cc4ab8e14c99 SHA-1: e193445bc87c2633e543611e0e6bc0c5ab8b36a3 SHA-256: 29bb023805f1c78653e633d585569be2e7a8411a2ec8f6da6fe0392cd1fc9525
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV and an ML classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=carbon+dioxide+and+water PDF link annotation
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abdfad627ffc55a87bb73ae5bafa1bfd/folalafomusifokusiveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bak.vn/upload/files/jalumonarasuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilafafafa.com/shopadmin/upload/files/xazenepetojaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/kobugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/kedokufelamebudoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurier48.pl/files/userfiles/file/35819510656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podgoricki-klub.me/userfiles/file/76951667391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q71hddlblru6s0ec4elj28sog7/55565592958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.com/uploads/file/26601361092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/09/file/42192141427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjccgy.com/userfiles/file/wijadavepefenufuwiser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/jodedovelemabux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachconggiao.com/luutru/files/temuwefunalemufunesodeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gro-felix.si/uploads/wezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86dcbacf2b586ecc06ef655f52b1f050/zovopebefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beverly.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/94567472811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/noxolumirusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sistemkabin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dixozupiliwurejifonasagab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d2dgroup.net/upload/files/38890639142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95116298676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/godotokibuzerupejevul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencerenerji.com/resimler/files/77657292772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/domavapanebofatu.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_off0000b5a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDBF 10388 bytes
SHA-256: dffca2301f8535bae4ab70f15e505c116cad1dbf33e104aa5e2c22b98dcb6bb3
font_02_sfnt_off0000e573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE573 16488 bytes
SHA-256: 23e8b6fb73872a2986ddda9fd677806ee2d12af277a9270a8864f7bbba7a1606