Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b29393a1294b9dee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 19:58:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 25f150d2d17f8b2124aebcd7de0ab101 SHA-1: 5d663bde56e1d4445b53387d7cf6041f2fe6b4fc SHA-256: b29393a1294b9dee68b27f5f1af42b6e930fabd82a6838622ae558332eb8da13
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further support this, indicating the PDF's primary function is to act as a lure to external, potentially malicious, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apke+avchetan+man+ki+shakti+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://hflchw.com/upload/file/91219402150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7820l9aef33gf02i913codn7dq/19633389532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongkhamthienhoa.org/images/files/53011288683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/vematuxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioichuyendong.info/app/webroot/upload/files/rodadifegunuguxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bccphil.paramedix.biz/uploadfiles/file/webifulujexuwebagowesuduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netlandschool.cl/files/18686159269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorus.rs/files/zusudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142ebdbce000---jimexaresotefowikevololor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primebrokeragetx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jutobiwesolawif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dzido.pl/userfiles/file/82207296002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspointpartner.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fafasaxediwuvidisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiramisu-o.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/90034441656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventologia.com/userfiles/files/62319797912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/38114718600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artbaget.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23299424245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake-tori.com/images/library/File/nujukorekujubapasoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delve-cr.com/uploads/35491245452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144902f7a748---fivojizefiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jifosimosatixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c2ed830375aabaa4d3ab49592ecf40c/73953664324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bbeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBEB 18744 bytes
SHA-256: cc173a166afac894380e96818aa7a0d16fbe5b2c79ddce8cff13f597a80dfda5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001050a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050A 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 1d7f79de129ae862faa0631c7d619394de96b278f4658891e46e069e3bf156bd