Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29bd989622e92301…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 06:03:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d73a47837ad54e9f8da52df9bdd036c9 SHA-1: 6cb69072b2c07543f5136754b3b72be8295dc882 SHA-256: 29bd989622e92301a7749ab6e8be776f09fb34600aaea077d910e416d813b48c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing or trojan distribution vehicle. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple external URIs and the classification as a 'link farm' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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=best+budget+mobile+in+pakistan
    • http://pelejas.com/IMAGENS/CKFINDER/files/dalosilolegi.pdf
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141517c1506e---63024091551.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd5bc28cdc19eaa063cce628b1751482/24161949367.pdf
    • http://drkoopman.nl/cmsimages/file/nufanejebe.pdf
    • https://accidentmatters.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12746511035.pdf
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae3c75cb086557d685db1e8e3fa8f17b/10532804244.pdf
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///zutikajudaj.pdf
    • http://fiumaradelsossio.it/userfiles/files/35035101093.pdf
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adf3cc426ad6998c4ac0cb34b52ea614/33977095958.pdf
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/kapefinareju.pdf
    • https://manage3.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/sapuvabumuva.pdf
    • https://fiscconsulting.com/userfiles/file/72145898314.pdf
    • http://stilna-ya.com/_userfiles/file/71856393592.pdf
    • http://thenikharvconsultancy.com/userfiles/file/86379205921.pdf
    • https://www.bakkersvlaanderen.be/resources/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/0/files/89342522205.pdf
    • http://pskov.agisinfo.ru/uploads/content/files/31939677795.pdf
    • http://asiancfea.org/userfiles/file/99986278610.pdf
    • http://mariautonoleggiomarsala.it/userfiles/files/35261557894.pdf
    • https://aquaprosmart.com/userfiles/files/zosujogekezojabut.pdf
    • http://whatcanidoforyou.eu/publish/file/lamurekoposodiwozumisik.pdf
    • http://rucodelniza.ru/userfiles/file/sekerulami.pdf
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/75869858356.pdf
    • https://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/49978166137.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b90c.bin
07d2ba49cd825c58c2d243e71c7c42df213dc0df4bcaa0c4167fc7dbdb5fdafe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB90C 11020 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d23e.bin
c0b52d5307cba89153538e5f15a4a558cab9266303cb2db2f4251c5ac3a1eaa6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD23E 15892 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fadb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADB 16792 bytes