Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29e12dc13da2baac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-08-01 08:52:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bc46e99f920fdf550c69b3cf48f961e6 SHA-1: 6e95ce003fc4aa34c5981342b054bffa41d63054 SHA-256: 29e12dc13da2baacc08901f19f3bd27d5ba7b539038b650da1ac3f6c71bd61d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=simple+present+and+present+continuous+tense+quiz PDF link annotation
    • https://soportedevida.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48405373954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/57088020794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc8a758812c---88288998790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mli53u8dslk4b470lghtn93eq2/fepipadekevodekoxejafut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/parolabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac45262c1f34e5f635e987d347cb056f/46449651680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9b84a19787443ae762b3461d8ca2dc3/13616141389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/59296598967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/ropupusobumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5e357bd8a---66482569748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9fabi44brhdqfd8gj2ca7b9se/70928260800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc3426af8c5---829028289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3b790ae02519f6a5e9997b0cbb385b6/newiligi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/gamutalisenikegid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee7lr7uf8faife1bdl7ab8ae21/84314926554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e9bdc0aa28f3e84672401960d3f1958/dexanedukujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f0cfb9f4b036d0ab0ed87f1e69c76de/jawotufexofejelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/73734197559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/972153c2884c52f664a58d0c9293390b/46807772161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82432ioicuk8pl498eh6iq5q5n/lukozunajovopuvalosaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gh81eccd7tnb9ksl18ho9u7tc0/58302629759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/84485712989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1rsf0k82mfjvg5v0d08ps3l117/miwaboke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbjnews.com/data/cheditor/0603/files/14602590240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyfestival.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajenebexuminirelakil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/70868338952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/fozixenefenedazorakus.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_off000115ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012dbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DBD 18636 bytes
SHA-256: 024e3e22ce38b3702c8cbcd3c4050c097a38415b16737aa839fe64e413d178ae
font_02_sfnt_off00015e8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E8C 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 1793e52a3f0036beda029f3147e4c4ff9a7c6d86590df84b0f5b6a5b00e424d0