Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29ece572b95f9006…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 11:13:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 79b6674ab18a974e6aa928a1aed3c98e SHA-1: dd0cafa8a12ff2e53fe614c5b48ed56c680eef63 SHA-256: 29ece572b95f9006b9c2364d6228bab9e901a05a2d1216688de10c92d95f6f41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for SEO poisoning or phishing. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or further stages of an attack. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the primary attack vector is the distribution of malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=windows+movie+maker+windows+10+2020
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af96feb201---88166527420.pdf
    • https://beldapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/24370498289.pdf
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/fabeziminasesig.pdf
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144072a667ad---tezesapumopivikafi.pdf
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/44330194263.pdf
    • http://rooptex.com/uploads/96227179607.pdf
    • https://planet-pvc.com/upload/files/78593405508.pdf
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e3fb499cd6---12623371139.pdf
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/17478080861.pdf
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320c35e8a4f---39341088485.pdf
    • http://www.physedu.in/newsite/userfiles/files/rakalu.pdf
    • http://gamax-moto.cz/data/dokumenty/nonasivubatiludidefele.pdf
    • http://imoroz.by/upload/file/faroxowefawisimatimifiv.pdf
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72709521250.pdf
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dae61d7c42---68619396354.pdf
    • https://tranduongauto.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/kedekajufibunaxadewetope.pdf
    • http://avs-market.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55574303702.pdf
    • https://zohopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nifibabikezumawasir.pdf
    • http://snp-ent.com/files/fckeditor/file/1354295728613355ac7cce6.pdf
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f721e7fb69---gibewubofajuvazofojuf.pdf
    • https://kaparatt.com/images/File/53295350369.pdf
    • http://ebd.su/UFD/7623/files/kiwokazuvifebigumovoso.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_off00010404.bin
e1ef9314bf699aade4ccdceb493fde675befc47280c61169a7a32d87a93b69ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10404 17228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000130b1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130B1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000148c8.bin
2027e41329fae63f40a0a717f9f3e56bb71e9cad3f20b6e6ee0ab1e1c58d1398
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148C8 10796 bytes