Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29c616c5f4e83fd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:26:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: a4bf9593682433902e7a7e0f9660dc44 SHA-1: 17ee640e5d7900b4e1a16238ab0c65a38f6334b3 SHA-256: 29c616c5f4e83fd16f2d07bb47898ef3627744f7532788f71360ab4e91fe0b9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL analysis and heuristic firings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bach+prelude+in+c+major+tab PDF link annotation
    • http://kipia-nn.ru/userfiles/file/40398834460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/gasorukafejetavafifuwumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-rad.pl/userfiles/file/54489534427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1amishc2fb.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97560788621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613626566401f---94493986563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/28726312608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ab46e5317---53338801113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibshospitals.com/userfiles/file/92458571994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/36845880654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c50c2cf9d---24175218942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangneylaw.com/admin/images/file/63040608271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-con.ru/upload/files/54127952650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibnuaffan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuxonuxuvibuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/74808038575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/kefaguzeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockpapersun.com/upload_mce_image/file/pevosesope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letsbelegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ramoxebixabevezowanugekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614165fdd109e---nuzuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_9615B7C95CAD0F5B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verypool.cn/images/upload/File/88876278142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/83422590484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f181e12fbe---99721350084.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_off0000e5cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5CB 18188 bytes
SHA-256: 2fa5d14b6ea2afbec7222816aebb669dee96963392f72ca50fdb3e9a0a96afdb
font_01_sfnt_off00011531.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11531 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D48 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 591ffbc4b1d8e15f077e6e5e23ef83d9a600bf350a8ab7ebd080efe63d7be197