Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f29953d86201f5ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 11:10:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 79b46b235401f65d08f1c69e6d513e23 SHA-1: 75a7ea0d5e452abfaefa4df3fee937dccc26e316 SHA-256: f29953d86201f5ed359dff178a612a4a1ae2f06100dde046759010f5314b7edb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to host phishing content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the URLs serving as the primary mechanism for delivering the malicious payload or redirecting users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+among+us+free+skins PDF link annotation
    • http://immobilieninvestors.com/userfiles/file/rowugegomelaxozopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nexuzozutogivufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epponline.com/mentorfinancial/page_images/file/29515942900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahasat.cz/data/file/jinerabegatijaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/12322206474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sherpachristain.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70394860679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://philly.drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/42924670439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26090954823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vvk-wiedermann.at/userfiles/file/44620804295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turskazka.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35333428323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16f50b1d07a9ab69477889c292c01a31/pavudovabido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-rad.pl/userfiles/file/mewerubaginekesarexiluze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shirbandifelt.com/userfiles/file/tenote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18780373203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaa437d3c73037fc0f051ce23cdde9f4/palizakudowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://innovativallatgyogyszer.hu/fileok/file/80283713207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25ce8bcb7d88ad4367b09c8f7be20ab9/69564869979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/daluninawixolakilipugig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malir-naterac.info/UserFiles/File/zaredamofufivabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/37362830572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150005.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210901162547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73452897548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solemarservizi.it/userfiles/files/riwoxuzepuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.net/userfiles/files/77128930450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pravkniga.ru/files/userfiles/files/zekisutuzowo.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_off0000d723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD723 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF3A 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 4c6a978238be193694861260e58597a714d1bda7e1d04e48b18dcc3ef940e284
font_02_sfnt_off0001082a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1082A 17192 bytes
SHA-256: b485ae41947d6f5b3f57b0d2fccff8bc6c53719bf7a837bcfb3ea0092a029052