Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29eba003ca401929…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:06:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6017e6e9a13a5d3ee888df65edc54526 SHA-1: 080ad96cdb5586bb05a64c7c6a8d307a7fe9f28a SHA-256: 29eba003ca40192964b95b5f33aa732e3fde753a3f0c613d8d85ac7d1c507016
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing content hosted on these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34d30b4151---35869312937.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ba3a0a78c0b4618995c9085e416c6cf/jevuxijovozuxuxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ca4fd5171---24734157396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/demadatudamuvumopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/90723910248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ul38j6jd7t4mr8phppsvhe4fh3/33488775458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaulumut.com/contents//files/48561916647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rodolphe-blanchet.fr/Rodolphe/fckeditor/file/92933219710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2lffihd2uke7b6gpaomkla3ng4/87097231006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861e3695ba8---bonege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078872faa581---11889669413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098150bbd086---mabonafuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9b558b469---lugoxaretotenaromigulefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/doxademunenutuzurenogip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6847f50a85---6044456809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20424871121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da71495c326---12279420761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e997bc287597707c5cf5f8a0b815194f/nuporiruxarulezoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8mvacr6ltjevaahub0hq8pb20/4334905129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/40589485218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/vamapulekapetipozudaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4552c1f84c---54992434022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/durupituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniontend.com/userfiles/files/nerikabudemavademek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=understanding+disciplines+and+subjects+books+pdf+in+tamilPDF 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_off00010182.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10182 11432 bytes
SHA-256: 93ccfac7c8956e38c684d057039c7be93d29ece04e2011ac0ae5e5fd6458c8df
font_01_sfnt_off00011c05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13417 23084 bytes
SHA-256: 60a2741323322bf366c9aa5c58545338f23c0d0efe741e53219f9a2e1943e474