Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29bb20cb941b2298…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:51:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f7fc37493894d53ea5f1d686321eb78b SHA-1: 8f78bd4a1665e7462394fe36f8b64296c8a4aed7 SHA-256: 29bb20cb941b2298c6dc9e0fab7bfeebda10a8bf0979fd763941b7c5b018606f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://goodline.by/userfiles/file/senokesubizizixa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea4393a6ed074d198ba33280a479714d/sagol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/rawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/47533009220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/jifopafajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/norizegugimitozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/29842447487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021052307424273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeremypourstarlight.com/clients/5/53/539822683240d2210db56c0084569a8b/File/39741209782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoaidn.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pumozaweluwojogam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a299fee6fe5---delenit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manchetenewsms.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15821818107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/62701797539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aescantabria.es/upload/fckeditor/file///wuwibari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/sunubilowisisorizifilaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.info-service.com.tw/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guriwatipelazoxewarigivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503205437365229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab8llgnv371v0l68qs7r2bfacb/wovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e93d0c08e4d---68613618035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hansenlight.com/UploadFile/files/15965572736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/rifefazerav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunianco.com/other_files/File/mirito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altaspin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/29468343818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronocertif.com/userfiles/file/92602522533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lvphvbh04p6k569b3nh0qmdt86/xumamitobutewuvunesenedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085750054002---74791934166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=o+comunista+exposto+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d3fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC14 10992 bytes
SHA-256: fd312afbd24fe93ea16f43fefb99c0c8840a5c7ce445636ff28e0c29f2d4c0ce
font_02_sfnt_off000105b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B0 18468 bytes
SHA-256: ad6f6166a75d1778c0c3b3a3e40dfef5ca4d4c1300cc145a3af0ff0b026357db