Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 729d593b1dc45eb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-08-27 17:17:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: eedc0f7117715ea67659d3ebb80a545c SHA-1: 540266cdc4940a5b39b522007346ff08db9ccbd3 SHA-256: 729d593b1dc45eb77513c3eb277d22a8d5be3c138fc3480006e8ed8fcee8bf83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/63871650997.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e72ad2d1d885d2cc8fa364029dee70e/31653171217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklima.net/upload/ckfinder/files/58433949238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98a05469b0---tigijurenekozerazozalusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1177aebf473879571ceb4d7268360281/75838763469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91559572690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/zumesutokafaxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/at3vqu1ko90krcoahe9eb6bgmr/pefegurefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611853997596f---93487688497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dae6be34303---sekuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85181eb5176fc0000ca45d8655bcd20f/84225542537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a0cd7ed80---mefonubupemesetawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altinhediyeler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/razibojetilisadinuget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/84304407030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liftsystems.ro/LiftFiles/file/91042455796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bed8e25fd---kigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/55199111344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/49879154729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ccbb0c4fd---lopogusutebawivomejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/arnmau7s9bl78f0a2s5qg2cj5a/fibuwiwozabomipurejubodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biurod9.pl/public/userfiles/file/wobobojobez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7seapharmtech.com/Uploadfiles/files/82334011072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789cd9bb2d7---8623736532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50762286770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=fastest+supercomputer+in+the+world+2021PDF 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_off000117c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C4 18896 bytes
SHA-256: 3b9028f040fbd5e86660a922a11dffcbef97fab398ba65fcd3337d859b57e053
font_01_sfnt_off00014955.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14955 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001616c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1616C 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 329843019be04e239573d112de295566dda49c0923bb09821e6b923ef5c5f4ef