Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b29b6530ce14390c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB Created: 2021-07-22 15:41:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 51b213230e596e667665bfefbfb66b82 SHA-1: 9743aaa879b176953473c0325df51083f387483a SHA-256: b29b6530ce14390c8b69dbfbbf81fd5a67243705d3493833d5dd4bfb83af984e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://hncastlecable.com/d/files/rutel.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb733554aeb---fozegowawofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.physedu.in/newsite/userfiles/files/56205540499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caebc1706af---5526619442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u9ufa2cslmlb999ib12ebpuq6o/66290319020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/sevomadoxutebavutor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb3418j4i5gs172catkgr77st2/reran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/88295351815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f101e48519---zewasuxita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4cdc8064b---xurigidakonusavaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c358a3b8225---kizegowigijatitabojen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://griswoldremgmt.com/uploads/files/42955552925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820ffb7d267---80713959424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cab7be3640729e3efbce324b7402c101/41057905098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/31474225498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d85432267---65546506026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/86149036482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c79af87b3a6---zosekogogerokuwagemeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/tuzapaduniwizatupurijegaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae7de8cf93b1b8bb30c7f31b1cd8053e/40362865048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/32097645780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/41853384232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826b3f1ab6a---53505328987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/silafarivibisig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8d2i4itncsd4hpoqmua0n8l67/15645927492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+phase+shift+of+cosine+graphPDF 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_off0001231d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1231D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013b2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B2F 17652 bytes
SHA-256: 672d90c79c06c175483207a11991d220c9a4835219dd45367d6d54d64af27915
font_02_sfnt_off0001699d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1699D 10932 bytes
SHA-256: a0865c6cb5b3fa19d545a3195e506e83184e489fc9c69d50ddada760581c09a0