Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29e2fb68af63e2f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 13:58:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8335784fd0fac7fab73b4da19c93825e SHA-1: 8bec5766b53a3051c52dc494879372154eb30c63 SHA-256: 29e2fb68af63e2f764ddafc55f827a22f2fc0fd9a4c226c2e6cb04d46bbc9d6e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and employs a social engineering lure to trick users into installing browser extensions or updates. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the lure suggests an intent to download and execute further payloads or steal credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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 http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ko2915ir2gh081dg52dtj2mu4/81756511385.pdf
    • http://hoangle.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/buxemoligumuxirapa.pdf
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/pevezamonasopoxu.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fqj098ksepj5no4hr6p9644ob/sajuvubezibewew.pdf
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile///tiwabixasinegopi.pdf
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e500f79e5d5b8b758be0fb2579deaf2c/91683635701.pdf
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2df76e83607fc114c1832f8cbf4e2e9f/vamavasi.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbb0a37d11---74797871749.pdf
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746c6acc119---laxipisojom.pdf
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efvlq2biciidh1lskp79qeamo6/79882399961.pdf
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/66509301028.pdf
    • http://globeksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25612987406.pdf
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c5f6faac2161d01512f38fb8641647a/bibamiris.pdf
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/12011854589.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c9a3d406933b4c77e9b115c5e6bc380/72845112472.pdf
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/19781524713.pdf
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4de0729bc2---88301774411.pdf
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/57829583853.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=three+steps+above+heaven+in+english
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off00015104.bin
a0f60e0fc81bbeef8f7427c57ea828028741dac51037cedf20b3a93a0ed42996
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x15104 23128 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000d542.bin
d4a08231cee25a0cd10f2833f7ed94e0797e244069d16f9d9b0f6d7b903eb405
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD542 19468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000106e1.bin
0ab96cd7eaf20916c43a625d47e1a69f37b1cf3e23e862ee4c737d40fcc4648c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106E1 10700 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011f28.bin
1208ebc1a0e9e3a85b95fb8d06a7a9a270a7108c4ebe4803a25c06013de99ebc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F28 7884 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000138f3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138F3 16792 bytes