Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baa51560fee38c32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-10-14 22:15:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: a60b14b5e99668c6ad0495d793e9c201 SHA-1: cdbd82e721b659453a81384beb0dd164fb126032 SHA-256: baa51560fee38c32fc046458b70260f4024b88a72b2d47a04bc6c1ceaf51ab7d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is a common technique for initiating malicious actions within PDF documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9926

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/36052073604.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614baa633e7b2---soratolazaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614947fcd3d27---pijepagowazaroduxipafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinclub.org/FCKeditor/file/wemofotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137da4320710---tememejowanaledubixasisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomorrowhubs.com/upload/users/files/40933291112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615804289d09a---39679634888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blow-w124.com/js/upload/files/32095355380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-tuong.com/media/ckfinder/files/xezimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161397803e0836---21496789004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ba98a2597d---81184825542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e93hr6bolnrpokk1lg22ki2055/95772044586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vandiestbrandstoffen.be/uploads/files/bipil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueparadise.pl/userfiles/file/81532786858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asia-test.informacittadino.net/media/files/54841701750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesrealsense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kifuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://setunari.com/uploads/news/2021/09/26/file/zigabefes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinostandards.net/upload/files/63673333632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacaune.hu/userfiles/file/70009468570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giteduguedesboires.com/userfiles/file/80508837539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmfjhjk.friend-match.com/upload/files/20061813170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alitec.es/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73815279118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malmospelmanslag.se/userfiles/file/90043580036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96379068643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/896FEnmJZlk/uplcv?utm_term=common+smd+resistor+valuesPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B2 16164 bytes
SHA-256: a0f26d9ec2bc0bbc84dfb8c1a224a49f7f70479ac92e21d726acd811d43f3bd1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D58 10608 bytes
SHA-256: c9b6884ad45d20862654affc1423cd56a248fedead873d2124f8e8d19e14f2af
font_02_sfnt_off00012592.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12592 20956 bytes
SHA-256: 2f916bc9681892fdd2080b3bc94c042f10589f36d9bd75f482b2435f65b3e183
font_03_sfnt_off00015c6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1