Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baabea423f4cf384…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-07-19 04:08:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: aa7502eabb0e16c22f9e5651d838ec10 SHA-1: 85dbda642acb851736d120c5614e4ac64c00c647 SHA-256: baabea423f4cf384d954d9b043c89a36e78e1141fef34f71ac9085b31385a900
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, forming a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a technique to host malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a279cd1ae43---38542579741.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ffc05305f---gorasepomunuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43ada1b87f---44422620848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fh09c48tepf5slllr39apgpfb8/debewobikaroneva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/59146422354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/doxubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51193af0931f38df4b799a8d95dfa0bb/towoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ffc83511f---3516594007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9e0064f2d411b78487da09bb71437db/67450028482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f572a7427---sajevikoroniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f19276032d---82579777654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a57398ffe3---92055552914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elminhaj.org/userfiles/file/nasekuzuvilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/gusirugomefunuvod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/69920303680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d58bd2dd6a26b5166aaba656a9f688c/72435113617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cskcpp4s422qujqqkbt5qqt36v/lutixisozogixesegijozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6651b3d24---doxapod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/50719793642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/tenixiranazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868fdd1dbd1---kolewifatikelozugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c939c13ebc3---jamagoniwadizopomufip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christschoolblr.in/userfiles/file/funox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/bidikep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+hills+have+spiesPDF 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_off00011dea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DEA 9956 bytes
SHA-256: 62202ad547b98412ee1932e58f9dcb056f1e3c8fa40691d7e3963a26c25d964a
font_01_sfnt_off00013419.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13419 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014c2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C2B 18236 bytes
SHA-256: 6169866bd1a3185db64207c81e9a5e6405410d079458f4768d16414509f2ed10