Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6a29da6feea9279…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 15:07:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7454b6b3afa1b4285ee29499de89b11c SHA-1: 9cd0ce6c7c9c2f9de45901e5f053cd71cdf81fcb SHA-256: d6a29da6feea9279a08ee586ff44072b02952f4ea14932b3724449aae4e919cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d47f673b8af387790026b190d08bae5/18137097731.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/51599391892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmacieitaliane.com/documenti/file/tovudopekidezenenezadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://car-zone.sk/data/data/file/37772433701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ff2138b8d---lurimarepitipanifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaservicecenter.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/tafowapavola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27198bc626d5274efb59299c5a69d17d/77869111287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcucaytrong.com/images/files/vemenarovedakot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139cfee2c5a7---17554335482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youkuvpn.com/upload/files/gemewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://directartdeal.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/vuwefaluzapiguwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecniagua.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/74916959355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcbarrett.com/user_area/file/gepexajunifuwevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/65376505327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://screen.by/images/file/10778749530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marchmont.ru/imgs/file/88499026404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telechips.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dadijisomutidawuzaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solelane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13198988166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechloyalty.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/falexikalotiwekeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfsroanoke.com/home/tfs/public_html/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mekajebulakujizeposop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bordadoindustrial.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pababumosogusizopazap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bacvietexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/rosunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=a+tv+apkPDF 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_off0000e2d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAE4 19144 bytes
SHA-256: 3bc0727fb0a87175bc7d098bf184faa973b377a7237c3653ed9ccfaabe5a2f48
font_02_sfnt_off00012ca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CA4 9624 bytes
SHA-256: dc95dd398a2b3613fc81bea55bec4a52022839ecb1ffb7732a95bbdc6450ea33