Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c29c0282d679ce1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:30:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e4ce43fac0b1cf31adc51788f241605c SHA-1: 3fe911cc1ad12a9fa12584671e239d97e30ed991 SHA-256: c29c0282d679ce1e2d2cf4ca7a5480e1c00aeba40dd18d8dbb6e4e2408290da4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, with one pointing directly to an IP address, suggesting it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/25560591618.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/nokojaxurazufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartbrand.ro/mm/file/9282652562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lyonsinn.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/ratagejevaxavegabigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7072e7f7934a220bd70a5c66375976cd/togaxabojajex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d5c2c2dfc9240e4e6643ea38c19b961/28464324688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protrialse.eu/files/files/guzefolukilupad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/kovetowovaxunaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8391b19ae1e303f04757b7829372d0c/92941910273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukubara.com/zdjecia/file/biligomesovuroraxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/76630243076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/82067040028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplorium.su/userfiles/file/51262836108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/bimuxofopagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/wesiwovezumigimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102ea4cc046f---37552977581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fqc6gv6p458adlri6hcimmpirg/buzumunatajasalupitul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9kh1q41c8bulo07joihjkbjan/85581986855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://178.62.148.222:300/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lurizabi.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ca7b4260b---4225099769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/28127783031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koovappadyscb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/minewopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=frog+frenzy+arcade+game+manualPDF 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_off0000b04b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB04B 10712 bytes
SHA-256: bffe09c94f86a066d64d14970181abd14ae2a0173d71159f565a04e56602e5c9
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0CD 14592 bytes
SHA-256: 75c2c425b2301206de8d719cb06536f38384298e466b27b2596e05d2f5ff903b