Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29ecb28737b916ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:57:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e03cda8db171f0095e217417e6bd5762 SHA-1: 0bfbf2113bd43fe61be78f0e64e47d8b2d9b35c3 SHA-256: 29ecb28737b916ee0059dcdd447f2b3ef72b842f7aaee186dd0bc4753bfcbaa2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it serves as a container for these malicious links rather than providing user-facing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+electronic+water+meters+work
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m19plgk17p6fjgadamihfsd73b/57798405317.pdf
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29bb8a50ef---xudalipakubadilebazibeno.pdf
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/415b32b12a879ac98c77d0d9d50a1ebe/digubuwuvelo.pdf
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bn1d42imtm9ubg4ovg898s6eag/xakopa.pdf
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085dfaf762ec---jadituzovizowitonefamo.pdf
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/judodagutugoferixi.pdf
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/sufimaxijoroluwanope.pdf
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/zokexuveruwejufasomev.pdf
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714196337f1---tusogokuvelo.pdf
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/189074ee0151ddd1d146bbd0cb90d6f1/56233450198.pdf
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1f7acac6b---jakikox.pdf
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/waxefusizazajodevetogusox.pdf
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/42350169753.pdf
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090940c8f909---28867151620.pdf
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa98c87b5e7d55fe200212738b20633e/748476256.pdf
    • https://all-stage-meditation.tw/uploads/files/60c106ef73039.pdf
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d08ddf06a7---lobedepup.pdf
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/vokokimixaximuserajapido.pdf
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/wuwini.pdf
    • http://lica-mpt.it/userfiles/files/46814795965.pdf
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/95204982706.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070eb37d1509---gufefagubunenilogifovew.pdf
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/202163167361422.pdf
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/39373173025.pdf
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1c7.bin
382d7c4c44c7fbe214dfd44dc06ea0d08770792fa6d295e0c694e35cc2801708
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d8d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D8D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000135a4.bin
0cc726f93c7865021a77b3dd1fa6bccb2f7393003807d0f02a6974023dc66aa5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135A4 10700 bytes