Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29fd9f16d7233dc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:56:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6f4603f27642a799819e0e2f1ea5d571 SHA-1: bc5513f7bac9d79f361bc4db15a0164dd608ed52 SHA-256: 29fd9f16d7233dc6df11a36f6668f3503d71c285dc64eb186b73739260825690
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious destinations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/28883683889.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/31443427088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/dikugegukifozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tvq5f9me7vu3l72cvsuej4gscu/17394310136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/36134838883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80f92b2f282cb6f0eeb6a820ce832fae/84340316487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/fufidowupedaxepupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/83087873143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pendekaremas.com/contents//files/45908597741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-champagne.com/blog_images/blog_/file/doniduxifajawurevitifenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/84596776725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsverano.com/UserFiles/File/52280500235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/60739946535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/10065470556094d7a7b15aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maviet.vn/upload/files/98535060840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e4ce57dfa---xojumererete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/10594583253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/kobodexibuxifafebodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davcpundri.com/css/file/48057280080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc020.com/userfiles/file/20210616231741_cuxxkl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents//files/79740940223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8e41874d0f819a948bf8ca65f1db070/lezopopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shihtzufurbabies.net/clients/d/d3/d383cf0c90cf2d2391705d5438694b4c/File/90381217281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/60493103110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861e4367526---mumeviwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/76054978028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=33+steroids+cycles+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000d443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD443 17692 bytes
SHA-256: 17de9efac704128ad957b392bac5a057820750ba33ef0b6f20154f016053ef5f
font_01_sfnt_off00010267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10267 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 0c541441c488c8114c69148a3567aca9b8b60987bec1dcb442cc1b46194e5bb0
font_02_sfnt_off00011b1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1