Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29d2be7674e1057f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-10-06 06:47:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ce0b1502d810432ff862f6227688be8e SHA-1: c22c3c66eb5226e582a035c50fed140d3b9620c6 SHA-256: 29d2be7674e1057fe1d7f894a472dde3696d7a2a332a11c4517bb0579fbbf0bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dynamics+hibbeler+12th+edition+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://purmoradiatoriai.lt/images/files/ganadazag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/32180089854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingswaytyres.com/project/kingsway/uploads/file/91935311011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exdebt.bg/userfiles/file/32361905561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69431036452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/supironakidisozuwipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemmacapitalgroup.com/foto/file/27964033674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchise-vietnam.com/app/webroot/img/files/36307646029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145d4cbb6b4e---93421312680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgewongdesign.com/gwd/upload/files/simidelena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bxbrdh.marketsearching.com/upload/files/zopapexonupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioboscono.it/userfiles/files/nawuboboxekajenuwigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahanakhon.pacedev.com/ckupload/files/fibabevibosarikabefopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c38f38064055b72a98c1a1dbf7c4b6f/34578541988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/48829110677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsjsbzrw.com/uploads/files/kagejazilino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/files/kinuzekodiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvatoria.by/UserFiles/files/rutusokekidig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rovitek.com/userfiles/file/xopobun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everintelconsulting.com/upload/file/202109130105353350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155f55d1e65f---46569792726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feed4a00e03d9381e3887f3c4a5b0c90/49702825126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/tefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/jabovudugopaxesofigolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c89dc7fa6---42553466663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novelinternationalschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wukogus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gpkoaee.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pojibetewisovokutam.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_off0000e67e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE67E 18728 bytes
SHA-256: 548bdb945223d16ecbf2441c498f88c3b1846316fa541e042550e4cf07a93518
font_01_sfnt_off00011670.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11670 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 4ffb5a4856a81fdcb0c360a8660376b39d983974e97be9134af1c86a41f7f0be
font_02_sfnt_off00013115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13115 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1