Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a29eb59b09c85c70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

137.2 KB Created: 2021-08-05 16:18:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 90932b35ee27965b7ebd20b31a9291d2 SHA-1: 2778cd7471bb4a7aedd4e6e6be19b4d4fd2dc665 SHA-256: a29eb59b09c85c70fdf85a75e44f90422dab6fa007303b72617b6999d3a0f5b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise, facilitating redirection to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9871

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://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d50254da525eb6a45403347afb17a4bc/69293548236.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://flirdining.com/uploads/files/78259497325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23485423425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce9af8ad1e---diduranijogineresume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/utg0quhhqctjkr7kb5c8i100jg/lufevatavusaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/rovudezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/fabewixosijefilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csaladiegyteruautok.hu/userfiles/files/43134620895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/riduvikojosomanaxujag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents//files/xefosenomunowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/dozejimonapetibizev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d888ca2d4---62433103270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b730112b39b---75558492324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f3c637bee8f4f92a958187069d8e6b5/31396026646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8df148632f282774f8f33a47c5027343/wotazowubavasomobarosiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f846c8f298a---budurazova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a748c803f---36043610473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/51525887924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jss-moms.si/upload/File/wurefivedijafumuwanubefar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9de5f3cd1c5cbb7ff5083ffa7cbfdc22/81664767938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ab47b565c5207b44552ae274f0cb3cd/2421318592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91061833425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a652b773b3cdaef2aa36697c610f5c52/88908546365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanstm.com/ckupload/files/pefodixidafabirazate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960aed84b5c---jufesunulasupoxebaxelan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamond6ranch.com/userfiles/file/nemakilada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=is+grave+cleric+goodPDF 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_off0001b88d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B88D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001d09f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D09F 17752 bytes
SHA-256: e26bb07629a53d3723a95c27181ca4faab61d97b139cdce2ed679727a5ebe73d
font_02_sfnt_off0001ff65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FF65 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 7f1d6ba0173277775a5596e0b5213be440a3c77e12075a94b81027752b33bc0c