Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df29d884174b7e96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:04:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 45df9c66a72cba175067cee1b22d9746 SHA-1: 995e978ed0fb3d58d94f56e5d771caaee424b3b7 SHA-256: df29d884174b7e9633cfe38e16ebfef3d884669b3e266c48bb36da3e2949e538
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, forming a link farm. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using these compromised sites to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce9260f13fc---10633302831.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13671330495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ximatinhdongnai.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/5822612262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/48672240212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d1a355a96---pobofik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkaganjil.com/contents//files/lemekexilorixapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3guk6in0a4ddfnbbdk94u36t5/5330683198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/82559485959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modamoda.nl/uploads/pic_lib/file/1737955071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84cf2a136d726e1dd92117ce8e4cf3ba/68923778020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943ae5e8a8e---fapumefoxutajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssanesteban.cl/files/joluvisijedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/robuzifupamoxujedugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/rusijelaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armandofalconi.net/userfiles/file/jipoxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33e12e3397f8e699f5f9eef7db8a22b3/61925367642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30eb673c6d8c28af62281fedc8eff1a1/12398906933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a858a8e5660---48360846535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melly-incendie.fr/img_db/61121512830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suavitinhtannha.net/upload/files/43008345237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/kobewumixomijisigivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/gupopisizix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f89cf54a5f5773f8f39460160ca6637/doradi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/1812246623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siriusdynamics.com/assets/uploads/files/23662896451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=clinometer+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000dfa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA7 17140 bytes
SHA-256: 490ac354089b6d521c5a980eeacd58225035da224357757263b8e0c0e1a6993c
font_01_sfnt_off00010c0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012421.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12421 10608 bytes
SHA-256: ece9856f6afb917feb3137d49265e9918b6de9a83d33a044dcec623eeb8b9030