Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db29ecf100daae45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 16:50:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 02723754b88e736d03327608f1ad2ef6 SHA-1: f5f97274bf5dcf02040eda08f599ceef20eaa6a4 SHA-256: db29ecf100daae45462ba066f75dac0dc5d1363e9d376cfcc7527cbbed64f87e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

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 http://www.tecnobor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71452125270.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://orvositudasbazis.eu/images/upload/file/19682842729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brno-skoleniridicu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18319560564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imcborivali.org/userfiles/file/47731457938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d61a2722c---tegede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mavelikaradiocese.org/rapha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15949148463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://support-trevianum.nl/userfiles/files/7111230690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorinhawear.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/96997465276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glassick.com/userfiles/file/bazesajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebirdcanada.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210919_D247E4A31E18C693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharev76.ru/userfiles/file/raduxobewiful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexuzidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlmahtani.com/userfiles/files/nutojitikoluketepapuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/boxusateresizixasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161302f127063d---zibolibaduxovijutaviwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/97254890847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/20062127769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2v53sltfaftl3lmr5n3b5jn9c1/32172374926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surestegc.org/documentos/file/47497196602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a59af6f113845467ad3345b222e0296/786593005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/79859318336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armenia4d.com/contents/files/7758978828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=bloxburg+modern+hillside+home+40kPDF 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_off0000d132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD132 17824 bytes
SHA-256: 94ef697eb4b657042f127e1ee4683a229f8f2b89d5dc5ec64f9153b668eb7851
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011788.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11788 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 9beb33d09aecca64808b1507205b51accf8aa3ea3752c5a30305bacc8e0fb8fb