Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c29979dad713df30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:00:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bf62c8a23cd28b64550fd2105b5d803e SHA-1: 2eb5a426969c5eaef69c22444af79c0995c2c7e3 SHA-256: c29979dad713df30ba0150be19eaf4a491301b675a6b4682617e8ccc3c7f5e8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to external resources, which is a common tactic for malware distribution and phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=categorical+syllogism+examples+with+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://jeremypourstarlight.com/clients/5/53/539822683240d2210db56c0084569a8b/File/xuwebofeburuvixafug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/34844518224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e25bc3ef8189a9e5fb74555f155a502/84632711213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandp-engineering.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/demitipelegisoderajoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://around-sicily.net/userfiles/file/vezosopinilixoripotifuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92b7b93215a5ac573521b7b3c282b1dc/vukafadiziwexuzujanes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsconsulting.net/cms/files/File/suwetozerupilux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ah32uamib1r6uc2poqbq2167hl/nuvorimuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7b7ccf62d95b07038d6bde3a568ae1a/58647251728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210808072246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogoducthien.com/uploads/files/36452517445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1609d37e47ea00---zugiwolilosakivuzap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/wubijumifizibasitovuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832113bd8a8---tewemasawudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denprokhorov.ru/images/file/wovowibejafejuwujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/35472100563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/33349433627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mazegenetovuzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-lipno.pl/pdrzewiecki/files/diboxiteruxededopotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landatur.com/files/galeria/files/43351220483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owtsreunion.com/clients/e/e7/e717deb27d844c69ffc49b2d3c0bb1a5/File/99576060657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba5467661ee4e601b705ea529e6915fe/97842896463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc32d4574bf---58649029782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://genarchi.com/data/temp/file/jinim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oawebserver.com/piceditor/file/vikeroluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keongracun.org/contents/files/96442999984.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_off0000fd00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011512.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11512 18864 bytes
SHA-256: 2795f68b097929188f63ec75b2e0484c467db65071d69fb9c52396b0ff7db818
font_02_sfnt_off000145e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145E8 11400 bytes
SHA-256: cca0c89a349775a0ba303c1173a8a1f2d83449e7900b3e9554c5b7fd3229ef1a