Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29fe2034e4c8211d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-06-21 10:50:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 860f805e80b8f7532dd6e2374ef6160c SHA-1: 40d3b35ea18fdbdba6e133a4cfd21576c50e2ba0 SHA-256: 29fe2034e4c8211dc1417e29d624284b682f4cc2816d4f3f96a43afea7fee815
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, combined with heuristic firings like 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' and numerous external URLs, suggests a social engineering attack. The primary goal appears to be tricking the user into downloading and executing a malicious payload disguised as a browser update or extension.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dioscorides+de+materia+medica+english+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvq5e36vma59htk6pmq4peqdg2/13636102994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210531050936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/kotibanititowikilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinocorporatechallenge.com/clients/6216/File/36752854276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/088593b460eb2e82dffa7a28f03a9b14/jaxokekenixelavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimolurokuzixasetuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd955794a9---kegikizedoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cff09434e0c---razewizakowafoxiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bam7pt1mp12hgc3cs6u4sk659q/lowovuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940780de583---tokoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarwaja.com/account/files/80515253115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9rcocsisrjh4n3san019a4kc3/39812891443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c656878207---viramagufejus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868fbfcfa2c---81737869930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcff00b48a8a47593db4383e7d9856b7/20946080078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001229b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1229B 5568 bytes
SHA-256: 9b7e39a40ba1979e4adc98dae2cf723cb29c7503d191d38ec8724222e33177bb
font_01_sfnt_off00013561.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13561 14488 bytes
SHA-256: 56f557495396c1cb0361537c942b095f681ce3a01dd78a20f50f11d658a98e04