Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a29fdf38c15aa384…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:19:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a5f7bba404aa830006df6cd10852c653 SHA-1: 5ec468ea493468c89b8d939679de37f427a1b3d5 SHA-256: a29fdf38c15aa38406e4f140049645518f77922022a60616d8fc1c494806bbee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a significant number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. This structure strongly suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e75eb06fc7---43898990962.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fb7500c47fcfde3b877d4929eaab169/94319134568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/94637853570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d701e50ac---89626905527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e40acf193e---xifevixefuzule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pv78ova45m4auq64d7ccm4remg/nemujupujubeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2coihno5g45vc1qs3ema14q0m9/tujamumofejerokiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beyondpins.com/calisma2/files/uploads/sirojadulamotutomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/11824661877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-park.es/img/uploads/files/54349026261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fd04aa528---nigagivemofiraven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc13267845---zirasavujezijama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longthinhphat.net/uploads/files/23828326159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthikhoacaocap.vn/upload/files/49645082677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/banozuvusazotulugaviruki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1621894192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00377fae11f0895947c87215c3e88152/xesebipigonidoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnwebdesign.dk/userfiles/file/vabamaxanukanaremira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-23/20210523154354903485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/92802763500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b91d5698e02c2323d085974a5e8228ed/kotiresegumiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photou.cc//ckfinder/userfiles/files/52605887727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c63da56259---welimen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=mix+pva+with+paintPDF 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_off0000ee74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10686 16900 bytes
SHA-256: 5b602b3c0075fc45714163ca1d5df5eee9697ee7428ca15f706c566556f8c5ac
font_02_sfnt_off000132a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132A1 10032 bytes
SHA-256: 340d5de66fcb2b032b9465860f9564f47c0ce809a95ae2a545e38cd8078a86ec