Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b29e4f5d8a35f4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 01:36:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2f2baa96ab732fc86f4fc9ed98470a65 SHA-1: bbbbe40dc7bac5968a6e799e13cf9207760fb1b0 SHA-256: 8b29e4f5d8a35f4f714741ac51f8256b365bde12576d78a426da579ff8567d86
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting vulnerabilities or delivering malicious content. The presence of a link farm on compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious destinations. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://vallovin.it/userfiles/files/11243577287.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ab46e5317---53338801113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldksolar-officialliquidation.com/userfiles/files/92868791270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/zaxewukewededajalogojedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/lorinugapik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digiconelectronics.com/media/bevapufojunag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146a8876ef6a---gojozutilojej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patidarpalanpur.com/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/virorulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a858070cf7---vuvozos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkeempat.com/contents/files/47915382127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210918070726_1681005519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5795131591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/48718785634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windfreeklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/70362404016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ab4028e02---mimusisuvinoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/41270607447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fteq.ru/files/file/bugixepadatoximod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614118e33c4bb---16975664813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b6502bf891c08e37716b4f65f21cca5/wusale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91152d39be610b04a97f853d2ec11d3f/norud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2hgghk.handylover.com/upload/files/56237266743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipsaix.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fifonasesumusafumifopituf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjmhospital.org/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divyabodhanam.org/userfiles/file/lediwomibagedoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.l-games.jp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80697804477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/ruvumamexokotozeravaguto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+create+reminder+in+androidPDF 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_off000101d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D7 19712 bytes
SHA-256: 81b0a34ff6fecc50917d2fa61968d048354c4f7b9902942959e55f6b2211596b
font_01_sfnt_off000135cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014de3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DE3 10396 bytes
SHA-256: b3c0a53166a3f3daeb461dc98d2915a03815284343f515d887cd939425f9bde9