Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d29d9f119a9c986a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 05:46:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 11ac4582aac0a505406689c816cd7a60 SHA-1: 07a3b4afc5c06b2b23451a91a7255be6208f8ebb SHA-256: d29d9f119a9c986a6fbd4d17d86b8baf593fc8b7c3833d2b76889e777c9aa3e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. The presence of embedded URLs suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=call+the+midw PDF link annotation
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0783599001620766066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohondamientay.com/upload/files/86185082571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/15577913200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/60982103907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087495edd023---nexivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967c97aee2b---56731939475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/34242808145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15e326468556f5a1739e1255c960392e/88541507236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/18697841057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkakh1v4anleip7kqhoskpu1kt/ruxojalewixominaluzilivul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feynburg-uhren.de/uploads/35530644926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d933d5ab41---gibisot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvpeds.com/upload/contents/file/70465545302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipbeachhouse.com/uploads/editor/file/98758328372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79dff80b07a4e4a1076c67fa14ce8c92/jekadakonofajupajomidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/rinogasazaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96c7d5de2a---vakegomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44f0d637b2---bitamuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210509195114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed15d54160---furazabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russia-ex.com/25880858211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb23f73352190ea12b08bd80cd96e0a8/276733133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080489910075---40865234365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab986a630fbed361410171dd7297055a/tusotixefemivibapopiwofog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/pawupo.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_off0000e97f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE97F 10140 bytes
SHA-256: 56d9a5031e694ffb7f879ca83ef901c074db626221689933173544d7ebe6a3d8
font_01_sfnt_off00010029.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10029 17808 bytes
SHA-256: 9c4483fde711f5a989bb9d907617b1d6a616a7fe7aeb112a6fbebc9b50135c28
font_02_sfnt_off00012f09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1