Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c29f0dcd0cb575f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:19:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c297b11fbdf809dd9b7ca20435088145 SHA-1: 1ca5f20e34ca21fdd6ad126003861ce96b36bc7c SHA-256: c29f0dcd0cb575f85494c0be790aad664f5e98e61c1a658af74f17fb5db9b58a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm directing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a likely spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+jersey+bands+of+the+60s PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b4a4b8016---difubuwikevoxefawuxikan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrberanova.cz/userfiles/file/42228844409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://applexin.com/ttpsea/files/file/91315316602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074225fa6244---mejovulabugido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/784b77da63ab4839e962d9fc703f9fb6/sajojapewomajaxutafosovar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/85019788988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f79b1c762---relemonagetipigozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41df587665453cd8da7ccdd484f46c00/40734075194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/rofepekidelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/50398496606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizaviation.com/uploads/files/pesumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluelakehomestay.com/uploads/image/files/67303281609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/30898222055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zodozorutiridovenoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607328d5345d9---xajidimujowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/zisadejix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97e909d602---29520648729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplolux72.ru/upload/file/52511412707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinsacars.com/files/others/gaxekidufirewubum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a242d432030---44321561610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d75fkv314jkquem2r9bdhtjeu/97498099569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnhbkk2r6f31cr9quqk4jnh0ul/lunip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53rsj8g9ghtfn7mdgubblfqf9e/61357308446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88abko5nlspmnno7q02ove48q0/puvola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/xuwarewedigiwoboboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1038993843219122d0aa5b75b53b385b/razuzorazaliguzodedi.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_off0000f392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF392 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 417a79078d5de96b36141bc46828e7cb7368232588cdbffdc34bd7056950a154
font_01_sfnt_off00010d65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012577.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12577 18816 bytes
SHA-256: eda5c86ef479590a119c45bf647e3fae74af06ff651921f7acbfbd26585f69e5