Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d29d6a718c66a14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 14:09:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2fa5d79af3eb40924e35bb1f80a77b51 SHA-1: 9ad799dfc99b083492846178ffbc62bc85c5d052 SHA-256: 9d29d6a718c66a14751989fb39d753a3f3cb0eb189992e5ba122f4f4bc0dc77a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised websites hosted on disposable domains. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=evidence+that+supports+the+theory+of+evolution
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fc25058e6a8428b5c340becbed6c374/83759228061.pdf
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/52651647089.pdf
    • http://livingkaneohe.com/userimages/71163805998.pdf
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a253f1ba504---kikilenov.pdf
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/69743369919.pdf
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/94364574502.pdf
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa3bfceb5d3197dc36218591a6f8fdb5/22628737446.pdf
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd9c236cfd5bf7da3d8228ff69f1107e/pibixusavejatugeseva.pdf
    • https://socohoteldanang.com/uploads/image/files/88811141077.pdf
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/506577c41bd1e6bedb38568b40b6ab26/27651259012.pdf
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/21835438013.pdf
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/72601725970.pdf
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f24bd9b82bb3c94d6673b959f29fb8ef/81145230144.pdf
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5ac9d40452c6811f5503c5e0dea2e6f/8189769085.pdf
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/taradi.pdf
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b56d8b31f83c68336ed81d148b7f2cbd/javufe.pdf
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e76a5549a4---dopanivakafagoworiz.pdf
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/53255185929.pdf
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/641aa05a3a4af665d90c730daed254ea/nipixavaxotidisovugodas.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/zepitezawoxotegemaxij.pdf
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39800028292.pdf
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/62514922224.pdf
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qv7u72a5e6of4uieuh80sric7/63087205549.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f44c.bin
14309e6da455b43443962218a1f889212d036a4cb933ee7a58abc570c5ac9c1f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF44C 10980 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010db9.bin
417575598fdd04314911f0abe5b241acbce9a7bc895b616e43623d9c09f9ce83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB9 16644 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001383f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1383F 16792 bytes