Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c29d6d8b325effe0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:05:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e2d837c03566ac9c929f5644ea34ef95 SHA-1: a1a3e2139ff3acb41393ca0794ceb283baf63126 SHA-256: c29d6d8b325effe07cd6a9c06218686341799da5a178fb4889191ad252115510
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=atoms+and+molecules+class+9+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/95141050751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/519d5c82cd9620a550fa5e78e3d44131/4471224927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-nails.pl/Upload/file/7542624113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gcr6kvi5kd93nscsaeu46d45rd/1234018414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d112937653dc950cb1a68995de814824/14174104978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monroehighbeachreunion.com/clients/8/88/88bd109b8fc96949fe6caf7698e88fda/File/92440279151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hvbarntfi6re4suk4levggigu5/kasoravexinifupaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fm3keg36fptsmuvh94ihue6s6/mijubozufanapigiwolewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siltherm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44423655377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hainutedecopii.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31101871346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/kanul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842bd5c8c4d---feduxamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e8d19c41f---tekavisebifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0fbe3aa533---monifexozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa6b535b169---1044538118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindentudor.hu/userfiles/file/mikozolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chezgregoire.fr/userfiles/27457594689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulceoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nasazew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/36488947217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irepairplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/darawalilajofaronejowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d571d4773d8f69c78f6328a8a2febf1c/79870364325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608918b741c61---telutiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/015a2011de4548ffba6939cd154bf75a/safagetezelavewenu.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_off0000ee56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE56 18708 bytes
SHA-256: f9f1c963dccce44fa26e8dbc445fa2907fb27fefff7b89d04d238050672828b7
font_01_sfnt_off00011f19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F19 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 3910bbd623b7c04011970c03eda072d7743710881c0b7562c5068614eb17867a
font_02_sfnt_off0001388c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1388C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1