Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29d7121e40e2dba3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-08-06 16:28:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ac6bf378513cdc437e9f6af820e858e3 SHA-1: 9211a1556848668c9f5d905e9c1d9c014869e8ad SHA-256: 29d7121e40e2dba332169e46111af5af1b3b00bcf64750afc9867e0aee3f0c10
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely serving as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document may impersonate official communications to trick users into calling a malicious number.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4333c00cd202d5f7b8eab93508d4e6fe/41100072594.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609330abdf6e2---mewirenuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db1e46236f---6198421576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internationalnetworksolutions.net/files/In PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c7ef5acd723c2f355442de27907b563/14307413947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huntland.hu/upload/file/30690808206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd9c372b373fe0a791622274d6ded873/45970972602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/todoxopobuturezapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0fb1f7b439e22c86485b4d528e47063/kakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krikrik.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/61766604378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adef0d1d499---9924991554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/32072867640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c6a0d6ec56---jotuwawamilozikowene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/24612099619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7be64ec714---65177035089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/51981047585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/495046c9749f5e90f34a78f4a16d1246/nuvuguwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/mivuzubosapazovebepajaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a1aaa00f9---xajutirapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgestone-ice-cruiser-7000.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gupumigerewavetekudoxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/kafinezurifiruxugokuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30bf8a18d703a9522bc8a0fc4213fb2e/30612669980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=passtime+gps+loginPDF 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_off0000fe88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001169a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1169A 19976 bytes
SHA-256: 5479052a083a6bfd342842804afdb39a7b434275074b11f30ee5bc1078ae76bc
font_02_sfnt_off00014b6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B6F 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 89b88edfd04eea9a87e1a99fddf069c7a1853e3ef89a09539dcc9ef5a339a968