Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 429882439456e50f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

161.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 20:24:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 890fe490b1e2200c110e03f785d822a6 SHA-1: 6e1bce86b830c39d21f12df779901b246b049173 SHA-256: 429882439456e50fe2df81ba184ff8ba6b4c185ca4b47e25001b90e86f107624
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely for SEO poisoning or phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs suggests a potential for further malicious activity or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9903

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://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74394e7c53d5ad0990f82dbde9290537/zusoforezupi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-rive-droite.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92536039852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4ae439bdd2115e33ff4954f5b1af960/gasugew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021052810471711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/fezugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/zuxofijifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pp0g1ftolbbnou7vh59qi5jbob/nimewiroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d542ee70498e0dcce131e35a71763df7/78122209002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27a4476dc60c3069d87ab746b05e22c3/kizokubibapalubeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9426555ca33a9299a6ecec99e8044fb0/wulukuregenunotewizasarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a5783e5c8acc1d5f49a671aabd09089/nanurofuxufusoxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity-pro.ru/userfiles/file/xakizot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29fc4c3124---rakugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba213ffef85b9ebccd8a325787166058/96872092969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787752918d7---jibukezidetusuvesojusofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c01dd176892---temasavuxuteboreviki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50757be8446d09163f9619c9586c54d2/80084197136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c033ec5aa9b---58885120727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/32703765556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59b872fd4b14d5c7fe83ec868a2a30f5/12802048036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://headrepublic.pl/images/files/binugidepesiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/lozefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/25678159900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lgkb7v574vim0mg9ov2h5pr9fk/96785021312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=art+words+that+start+with+kPDF 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_off00021e85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21E85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00023697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23697 16908 bytes
SHA-256: 4dae1b5a5a9c8dde42859770b8f20d767e060ad19af4e8b82720b863338700bf
font_02_sfnt_off0002629b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2629B 10220 bytes
SHA-256: 9f354187b5903ed2ac4dceb860e6a7810dff815af85530043e4057583dbc2437