Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c29f034fc827b0e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-08-04 21:50:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 3257de6a06b84ff31b898ba77d3c285d SHA-1: 8f7c57f2d1ce2ff0c03056be8a868d605a08b47b SHA-256: c29f034fc827b0e04ee9dbd0c5c7b1ad576cf41430c305e41d330ccee373f6f3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://businessvaluationapp.com//fck_files/file/34293920235.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95u34fg02ak5p6lnal8sdu8k3k/76554531044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/govemeromado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f29b151c3f---74464981530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608845498430f---darafifitekadujedetir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161049fcd09dc0---tofamizituduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fda7ee3e04---jesiviwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/58569727678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snsi.jp/image/news_file/zevupijupofigarisevigite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/igi0gbkk3c3uip27cqsbls9un1/novizupitujituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakatarikaszel.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/52046472953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orhs76reunion.com/clients/30721/File/218922937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzycznescyzoryki.pl/userfiles/file/dufalut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1f80331820---koregusapoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f9b56dbd1---gozemewamoxerugebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4ab70182822d81fc2ad1e89e0157e2a/27020460144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca37495b2b7687bee0d90e79a114b093/80592207787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcm.es/files/galeria/files/nebux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/48600950502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bizegiwitebawivisagedapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/78227710637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210526083548_2078487139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/67279914948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+hack+wifi+with+root+browserPDF 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_off0000fc8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC8E 10592 bytes
SHA-256: b2cad507277354cb55a12bf2b0fe863e3b20f9b63cecee635c7a474565850b01
font_01_sfnt_off000114f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F6 17388 bytes
SHA-256: b6529119b044ca9f193e5e6f5f312e88d1f4dbe638830f88c58bf0cd050229ef
font_02_sfnt_off0001426a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1426A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1