Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d29390d19129832…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:18:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 601a7807fa13ef505740e2682ac472e1 SHA-1: 784210bb2081c7f9edd03a212d0c050d2ac5aed8 SHA-256: 2d29390d19129832b996fea5bc325d47d6c95a42b5505da32d7878d0933740da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs indicates a redirection mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://chiaranannini.com/userfiles/files/97535827595.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/6915069995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nsqa9t2ukm1o5p94st57slidb7/gutagejulikikibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccmiennam.com/media/ftp/file/68096787754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rltclassof1970.com/clients/8/8f/8ff9f19c840b982a6efda18ba8bb483c/File/mebumakatedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/9300264543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bren-mgenwil-gcbf.ch/sites/default/files/fck-uploads/file/61637166351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cc51255743be4ff7ceae5bb70e82234/lotexelalomafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/sarujamapulojuwije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles//file/40924063306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/supifabipobotujevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8d6a5bb648---fojisutemixilurupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/lelagadesekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d737ae82febcafd3ac00bb9af0f00196/72225748685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/regamitusetepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/vujax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875e45d1e3a---12632626370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4d41594e3---povuzalunoferomuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/zabifonapofijupasagudanes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://larben.cz/media/images/upload/file/zenipawobegejopabuwovoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xmst.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/zufezopaxerosorepafif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/30615264608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://german-ex.com/images/blog/file/latawotimawerezugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3s9t2qvts56ba80tvi61ftvo4/52056384427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3305a28d625e5cbe67182aa81ef4a8da/36540730744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=loaf+pan+used+forPDF 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_off0000f889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF889 18304 bytes
SHA-256: 45f482025609e58d60ebe46c04416ee2f1b6bbb1d8c608aa66369184b3752601
font_01_sfnt_off00012766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12766 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 0a66a3d28c2e14db9361037912bddb20ab21d2b594982e43110567daae30e10b
font_02_sfnt_off00013ebd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1