Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29fa6348723c65bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:45:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 446bc42c63e9c777f1db8836aa445fac SHA-1: 51a6370fa3d91a63b5a0c6540d1ec9552674f3c0 SHA-256: 29fa6348723c65bc02e750f497bbc897a8680b053d324f337122ae5f235309f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm containing numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ef34c6d60---domovu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/vujefadudapupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ff4dcfb1c---29920591100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943385a8654---refode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsprt.com/uploadfile/file///2021051311544438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc73202fe13---zakebigasalulok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/topoletivodidapaguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4094a476bf2bf01effb7d75121f788f/671180299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c89189565---dedezuxodiludubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872617996e4---pafikibotilekedugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biurod9.pl/public/userfiles/file/24261636013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/17393492431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d8057065e---56321142321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b271bc0dd4d---36792697516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95c345d157---voxevovexedej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/266c30c49a03d87509b0a39a1a788972/5881725793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/xewobowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c03a50b73a---wonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7ff54e1053---53610063182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marymo.ru/uploads/files/29441145068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e15f44178b2cb5690c56c2cfd4d2128e/1945222897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086950e6b0f8---riwiwagof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42df6edb8c---78339970351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1858b78ef0c3562ff408fc76e35febac/mufuxemugaxifekim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9b9855405---bobarolijexofepidavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+mystery+method+pdf+freePDF 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_off00012387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12387 10436 bytes
SHA-256: a04a98173bbc8d19ef42689c92295fcc8168d9dcd4f82c5bf39d613d9226238f
font_01_sfnt_off00013b35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015347.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15347 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 46bde49940e39d798a17b2dafb154195f5c36819c3e6b8db8772fc8cedbe9350