Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d29a1e548f533c3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:13:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 62472245985101bc06e701cb8ae02148 SHA-1: f625131a6dc9b4ddc2254f323593ae673a949076 SHA-256: d29a1e548f533c3dac68d07d08a3742602f7a446d3dca4d65901b9a5f46f2c55
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF containing an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external links. Several heuristics indicate that the PDF acts as a link farm, with many links pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://adci.vn/data/upload/file/40031374870.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cauthangdep24h.com/upload/files/46288500323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080aee9ebdd3---35322690017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/savowefer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/bewopujokasiwukidilifutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents//files/wufekixunar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75d3f497cb63cf9428a972d9d8926b83/baxeriviwejibixanabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beverleyannes.net/home/beverley/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/favirezolapaxuxalabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/22936544559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2dc4b3f1e---6730213973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomodorolennep.de/gfx/userfiles/files/fejapiwamexinagixewusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriramashramps.org/userfiles/file/rewevijobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2877dd95659940b27d4567b715fc6dee/xidom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0958b3b3f5530a00d015e37959bf78/fazob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce6aaa07ca---gakowuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laibros.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/webetazutix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/gatawevorotumosogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linlinline.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pizikodopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210525022012759062816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/43494893113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromavials.com/d/files/10521085913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93c6ee00e02d8c1e856b9006e1a4913b/57984854731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/712f2e4c06f40f2bc6320a862791034f/digisuguwewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=bridges+in+mathematics+grade+3+answer+key+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_off0000e3f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F9 11416 bytes
SHA-256: b1cdbe1ab7290747e4063621525ebe68c3ef70301af879abbca28cc07c9a9c17
font_01_sfnt_off0000fea6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA6 17952 bytes
SHA-256: 3af7d5112bc4cc9a28eba6322f693adb0a09bd3af20a70bbdfb88dfffa1816b9
font_02_sfnt_off00012d85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1