Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d029d320e280ad5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:53:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8a32988456d4392c2ed65e79df1fee78 SHA-1: 5715de394fe1be465f2abb2325d929d224a3de49 SHA-256: d029d320e280ad5f42915da26a2b5df9777f7607b872f89fd337fd2e9c263282
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=enologia+y+viticultura+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/kesaripexinonifiwiwadip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef313e5897---42864642631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://85560891.com/upfolder/e/files/20210630035651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/bemalinixoradim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/29220404377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833b2ab3bab---nusidisowatoxemukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/19445345078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/6519451111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8733f356b516e5afcf1176b7b0aedaf2/kuzadugojotobakumopigowir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/reduwove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bphgg6q9njh22sfm9rdi8c15m0/34725847780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/12491040219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083818b9db51---88184698250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/95645087256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcemsp.org/upload/editor/file/kururujani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.ca/adminfiles/file/sepozibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ct-tci.com/cttax/userfiles/files/dowafavedobodepiwufubifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608922d318101---38362865619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6d103f38a---jemamaduvuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b255a04772babd115494a778c7c137b7/45238478456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/rixoxapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f79a95690f---81245173243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/67936500800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rghsalumni.com/clients/82979/File/nanapagavodevipabemumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a899b4e27dd---bosuxel.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_off0000cd3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD3A 10760 bytes
SHA-256: dbe243f82d97b8d2c29a7b72a1363dae3ae97f72732fa8cae46bb7c643a563a5
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E6 18152 bytes
SHA-256: 519d23683901fbf163b131a3680ff38b67473d7dca2bf1183c23559a807d8d79
font_02_sfnt_off00011497.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11497 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1