Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f29218251ad037a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 21:15:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b8b71b8408bd8cf9ca263fbda1966263 SHA-1: 8a9a8cca3300fc716111bb3e4b7dd7cd2c89bc30 SHA-256: 3f29218251ad037a03d18e16b122901ab15e0494e76e33fad9baf1bad3e1c685
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm pointing to potentially compromised websites. The presence of multiple external URIs, including one with a 'utm_term' parameter, suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=things+fall+apart+essay+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vulalovovositupipesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8db6ae2d6be31f0e19801da179a19ef/gunuwixexoviweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/42177502094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vegexematot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/68667999235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resttour.com/images/userfiles/files/48438212072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20b83c224ea208b39ab71d33319df4b5/99027559054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/71219076728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/jelunefelakimemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134fa58015d5---mogizupaxigonubuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/kilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfect-aerosol.eu/userfiles/file/24995288115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redigonda.it/userfiles/files/lobuxorefokaxoxixagumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/livetabek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itemclinicchina.com/ckupload/files/20270240929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facyt.com.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gevutubuwezonukuwizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3a215dffa8423eb4c29aefdf1620b6a/94327003170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/furigafomorizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levotst.com/uploads/files/83075748296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perkunasstudio.com/uploads/files/202109091702525759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/newavaruxevipozeveza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvmdigital.gr/files/files/77461655430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accu-split.com/userfiles/files/38585627205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a0adea8e02---31334367121.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_off0000bc02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC02 10732 bytes
SHA-256: c7b24743651e573e0bcd9a56f540d4fa36d76b176ab49b578e134eed0ec10fe1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d469.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD469 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC7B 15972 bytes
SHA-256: 920c1f539022412846878293606906d60e05a0e4ec9111c25bf7f807c3b67436