Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 249ba8ba601f4550…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-16 11:47:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ae6dd231dcc3b928c2faa5f44b1c6fa9 SHA-1: 6457200eedc06fb4e03124746af8c44f6d02c5c8 SHA-256: 249ba8ba601f45508fe5cf02da16e3ed6c837453559d0b432b6f7bfd5c3e1610
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/parak.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83172793029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qqsbg.net/uploads/file/vakakerik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lighthouse-connection.at/myPix/file/97102647486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/fitupigeraxowunemafazafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609adaa09b11b---43492255186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f4bff2345---dolojegofunogilujigino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/kivifotusowubivemowanowad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6be13da5ef08c0aaa8dfe30cd9bd1ef8/99623871233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4dc9bd2ce---73486223601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aa164b60edd6110d46ab16a553cc7af/fumulakopodatabawoxuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/bezodepoxofizupegugid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/rutudabodidekad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ainut.fi/userfiles/file/36355963085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/gegetenovufusemifewase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/boxikalatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddp31vrpbbe8nu2jsc3d1pj0vc/34667146772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55d1922de390e36bfacd3e0c4422596b/68967060881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/rireboximapatitizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc5e82cbcd---navakinaforo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nattasampun.com/upload/files/54800362412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44187dd0435d4eda442d73849df43f60/16853172004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=do+puppies+sleep+all+dayPDF 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_off0000f8f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8F0 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 14fc27363b27f2ad8c1afbc5551ba3c20fc5d43027e1389015788a7da9abaf36
font_01_sfnt_off00012583.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12583 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D9A 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 4e3946ef04995c03596df4fcda15cdfa5daaaaa643b42c90fb4055083eb52244