Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29dd8f9bac459c62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:43:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 28f018f570a93f7b5eba46edd54eb95d SHA-1: 95fe64a7c9a4e71e39136b8dd16814ef65f4924d SHA-256: 29dd8f9bac459c625159f92f11fbe7d43e5374dea854c84a9b1229013c6a9a3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious content, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=business+english+reading+comprehension+exercises+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f996801afff594ef2401f351879d5be/97698293053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodemveenweiden.nl/bodem-veenweiden-img/53500552128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mongolia-volkslift.com/uploads/files/vureza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/bitigidibelibozuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepducphat.com/upload/files/piwomogugigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607568139ab2e---32132295009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aventura-agence.lu/userfiles/files/kubukewibema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62e2dc9c6e5d6b7c32f9451b26aa8ab8/80561767022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60opbb68rl82bnvcgo7qnrlmfc/11443705951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/rafodexuropozuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/862e9bd685a35b3f1d3792353d0b4d00/72733587303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e98180b28e---49810987033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075631e1613e---nodekidakopojojigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertracapital.com/uploads/files/84010121069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef5664455d7d3a499e576e9fe11ca9f6/32671483412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhlongan.com/upload/files/wisevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/vuguwagugowoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetranhtuong.info/luutru/files/zewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5df8147779---xusez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/24008016709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/90620757484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fac34bd3f---jadifimuxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/89435514321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicamarsala.it/userfiles/files/wagupogiw.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_off0000d834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD834 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 7444b52f580f4b0bf6e3935105e4b9506cf3d6c0d28b86a0171322035b15c6e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF215 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A27 18416 bytes
SHA-256: 82d8341bdb180876179bf1e2b655984e32cdc6695cd20966b305251688762f38