Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d729912a4e806380…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:47:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1b94f863b916fb82617b57d565e01b46 SHA-1: e87a0c7a0aea91d21d0c39cdc2f7dd61019c3421 SHA-256: d729912a4e8063809ec98c54be1b3a0b212f5027830397bf8c1b2952ce6ae181
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62b5d1557c438006e3953325fa20700d/kilupazasuvepebor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chulatutoracademy.com/chulatutor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liwawalexoweragokuvun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8717a0s39jj6mrte8vkc8mvisp/15464045909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/12760069382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107bf1da9ede---zemafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/golega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cezartravel.hu/userfiles/file/84547383889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99b3bd4b84141aa283613a7ae481b9da/rajalowez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/lorupewuvudufoputafup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b478ba8734f1748b3f10933e87d505f5/42487114542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/87136809991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pressvaluation.net/userfiles/file/95964694377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c71c4a3e2---81393897926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b29b6cl1jjbl603erujv0899r2/xejonomazibufuriwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f2cbfa560c---73179311911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c412f2c90fa---lilebejonamowib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///xotekijegikujinikolesusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://join-angel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14352183071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7bdcfffea0223acbabf8447e4a5697c/nujusimol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24f9eb3effbcf8ab50a4a6931eea6f41/febulapemaxoxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esrafisek.com/images_upload/files/83260378967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odontotecnicacoop.it/userfiles/file/82200004311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/pulogituxabugexivoxazibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=bonafide+student+certificate+for+national+scholarship+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_off00012114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12114 18624 bytes
SHA-256: 98e396708f34e151e3c8d57d65b0e3000045cd35e7ce8fa137eee9cd12d12998
font_01_sfnt_off000150a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000168ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x168BA 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 247b3c638c806861653e54028781a84bf5de54a7062c56ed52debfd16774127a