Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e29c0dc04be6751…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 01:56:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: a7a7cfb16bdc4385d448bc7cc33de9db SHA-1: 97e1689eeb2db1254c479ad6aeaf908b77de2e9c SHA-256: 3e29c0dc04be6751345484de6ee8196a5039b9af442be40657d88ae8b8fe46c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a malicious attachment to click on these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+lesson+before+dying+ebook+free PDF link annotation
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/wilewewivarifur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613925f007074---54713009643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regaluxiluminacion.com/uploads/assets/file/91237904134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139016aadbf1---85457657540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613914592f5ac---41540109533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec2da42b0e896c08aa1c5f44d18cea3e/2568586160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612feafdabdcb---5863388309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c9fc8883f---72181285575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/pegigodemakadegowuxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/68562422188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullprotec.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/velezibijux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/95214411796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapacargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33941309547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guijek.com/userfiles/file/10291644351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suativisamsungtaihanoi.net/upload/files/labiburexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoolteh.eu/galeria/file/42905863644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michardardillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2201729047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbicwad4afgcgd5aph7d5e.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mewivip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balmybnb.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/3861027297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/futogowuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_8ED17FB58EB7960D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikludava.lt/images/files/wilatodaworavig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hortherbpublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/zagakikexosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incomsistema.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vurelekujapudenap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/misewoji.pdfIn 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://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_off0000c470.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC470 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 1e6e21b6270b432956aa270f0d072afc6dcce2926a0e98fad95396edd3f87217
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A2 18068 bytes
SHA-256: 9c2a2822c8b324e74553c9b6f306b62ad7a25cbec58015dac3a8b2bf2cbc4e73