Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baac49ee66cfd961…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-28 06:01:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 162059120ce6c34a6e434a56c5598fd9 SHA-1: ddf4ad6cc14a22f33b2895f44b6fc15de8b06ca8 SHA-256: baac49ee66cfd961ddfc7d2bf08ec49e6445cd79c9fa166af882906e20d58f62
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojanized document. It contains a link farm pointing to various domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly supports a phishing or credential harvesting attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://dulwichtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/35728799772.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://manu-transport.com/documents/file/17500204445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hlj-vibration.com/uploads/image/20210904/files/20210904002019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oawebserver.com/piceditor/file/lidetubugimupitoxenafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26776525165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masan315.net/board/imagefile/file/rusavewodevevuzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/padomadadezatobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ystechpro.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/webuluses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daluje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langyupharm.com/upload/files/45020324404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/25710392562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedpetexpress.unitedreloth.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38833769433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/97718485124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-ned.com/uploads/files/15852829254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/37837569432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a84ae9e75850dbe841df418d9f84160e/janivisuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ff709e634e---gijedemokukakovupef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centromp.it/userfiles/files/10085826235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.ru/userfiles/files/68063847778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/64499272521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://89928386.com/uploads/files/202109040102021380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/8122831205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37c3968c0bd74f0461029977bbcbf3eb/gigamokuzebilevimolajobiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shimamura-mail-order.com/userfiles/file/79799978809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=muscle+labeling+worksheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000b2fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2FE 15492 bytes
SHA-256: 28155e9e5c9be6666b70299a9240d93e97bf8e24f970a639a6b646b284c7a702
font_01_sfnt_off0000da38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f24f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF24F 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 4c8704cebb53fed5f3414c736be4fc09e98063eb4f847a9227ef118d6fa7d7e5