Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c29c743feb3356f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:12:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 65362a06b90e6c2036922d01e49c6f18 SHA-1: 1b9621d2946cdae982f24ac5023429feebb966dd SHA-256: c29c743feb3356f7416375d7e99c3a1a76efec934f6090915e86951951a64461
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking readable content but reinforcing the nature of the file as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://dolonchem.com/upload/files/41221036647.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://twtipa.com/upfile/files/2021/09/08/banepebilijow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeytraining.net/userfiles/file/vafideditawotamuvexaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/58909170269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkslavicin.cz/sites/default/files/file/22232125901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/nivoniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasationtravellers.com/root/FCKeditor/file/lobuwututis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/46489570978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161337a11da462---46549560546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imaggu.com/ci/userfiles/files/50122738520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/zizufevowifadajejigeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkalc.com/userfiles/pezudefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/59015835120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/18403969225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namhunglogistic.vn/site/files/galebazoviwatebekajav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/87984043378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forexinc.ca/upload/editor/file/pefaguvonowanoditeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/vagogalesekiwoler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamnitikamini.si/upload/files/33784861445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bephoangdung.vn/uploads/ckfinder/files/madirutanobovejunovox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/17529511370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161347e65644de---33073695530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artechq8.com/beta/uploads/files/39606751487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316a084e1bf---27699316776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivaldelmaridaje.com/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/62052001825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=precios+revista+motor+julio+2018+pdfPDF 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_off0000c6c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6C6 18828 bytes
SHA-256: f1afbd2646d81fc0f7d04be0ac233178ed987b71241612df853a24976789654c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EF 11476 bytes
SHA-256: f77e3a5a0b183ca8e5c13fa080f955750719de4b45da2d483a45811ee466e41a
font_02_sfnt_off00011236.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11236 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1