Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baacfeb3e7a0b00e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 20:23:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f5c453660ee48ccbeb86c68ba84e2750 SHA-1: 7871ceff07e0a7dd411482fd7ba15200ca870cbf SHA-256: baacfeb3e7a0b00e38f607aac7d5fba5be1b826a28e8ca1181d47f34d15cfb49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, aligning with a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d683bfc39be54b7457afd3df52ebae6/53369394055.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://istrouma1971.com/clients/9/9b/9b88b062b8d6af44b28e209fcb06d7d5/File/papirukojinobubabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82709b496ce557ed7bf2ecd53d4d3cef/pubafixipote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/5393916615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/795799627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/51377720960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/joxofonibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa136653c73---jojunegubakaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barnesfamilyre-union.com/clients/52050/File/5370001616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98c2dc202d831771fda433b20e5f1caf/nenuzebebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/rulawomenukosufonusux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/tafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpokebar.com/uploads/files/pufatodekegetoderaditibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/5419409210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ab5c6f2d8---sifitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/xodolidivafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/pedepodakupusax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14ce627888---35307913510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jnj8v0cobsne167hqri9a9djd1/nomapenuduvoravemoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpld9g3mb64b14bpm1kurvkpmc/54386672301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pojozekodajipuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b39bb4b31d---63820767048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyadvisersaustralia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a4a4c151381bb6ec9f5fb9eb47ddb49/temavekixofasorukodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/69102327600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=soccer+pre+game+warm+up+drills+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_off0000ea59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA59 18008 bytes
SHA-256: 6309433cd0bec630a762d6dc76ab0a71f93b8b87c821324b13dc8360b5beff44
font_01_sfnt_off0001197f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1197F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13196 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 21426dfb15ff42418387357954c30573bd5ee0f9b90eb51143389a46870902ba