Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a29269b2453ab0f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 19:15:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 5ff665d6385ac2842b1349c0eb1d4da1 SHA-1: 0eee91f743384d10108c1358aebc9b9d36d5711d SHA-256: a29269b2453ab0f0d174a8ec88f178361094e401c505021180b38b172e679743
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. The document contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, that lead to PDF files. These links appear to be part of a link farm designed to trick users into downloading content, potentially malware, under the guise of legitimate software. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1dfc725bc9---dujifikifefu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202106201738347068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vl3022ld8dvnjodjrkekvd4ogv/pusidemuredeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/zunurikudadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c755f72546---tebolirixazujuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2b1567e26---gowuvikikisuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd52b870a59da62e0892bab8bcebaf1a/bilawegevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e54f91dcec---58694708587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bomtvplus.com/data/board/file/20210618054127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7f27d6bd2---kajilixeripalobizarotosiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riguwaxabutefuruzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086086d4b948---xafim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/dirosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d32862bfb9460a20d67812b5ac35266/22312785242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd382263ae091da29411b34cb18b4319/85769332170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa6f01b308---35538078855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70910be41e82dbdc386938556102d453/sipaxeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/55544366465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f864f6artv9tvnuhvn4pg8so4/11343089663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kdsag3a70lddcclt50bsdfgmv/35572746345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anipetkingdom.com/webroot/img/files/77722634734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waroproject.com/file/lesefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hflhlvouhahj06m8tcf5ckf21n/duzilazowizilomot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/lafebogudoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=download+toca+life+world+freePDF 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_off0000ebe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE9 19560 bytes
SHA-256: 5a8f93be5f181657d43dc1f03462cb5f5ebfef71e5b98ff6f9f679bddb01cd79
font_01_sfnt_off00011c50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C50 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013467.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13467 10388 bytes
SHA-256: f88f70ec5920d08c0de05dd801084be574e244cf1c5ba102697b2e026888037a