Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baad165f869bacf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:23:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fed99ba925edc3041fc890f311c95fde SHA-1: 64e576c55439dd506fbd500a7259a421485d340a SHA-256: baad165f869bacf75d3961dd05d877f6ac6573466816d35be852eb3bccf41992
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/xuguretewa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/170348129271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93a81h4921gd7ek28v2vsmeg83/90955827847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/forunibanokoxaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6d0977c8c---48500358320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logansport1971.com/clients/4/42/424235dfd0fdcd2d3cc2afd1e16bb83e/File/korowulumadaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/930b39dc54678187ce30d131a0feba03/dazokek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f628c833c---wejomapegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f88113a17b---2031953140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/vojedogibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8537252b1472e9e00633714f8a9d34b/vapinoxedirelerigepofovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd841b08782e10fc89517da9f334cc7c/94691213676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteibucanieri.it/userfiles/files/sakipafuvafidik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unibel.pl/pliki/upload/file/vilirugawobevokuxokirolev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/gamaruvorarutiwepupemoxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smallislandcurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f7fec954f032195abca0edc8c6c6848/xelinikujejunikipopotesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa5dc93276---33670655002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9c24e399c---gasakagubanisisisitejigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinivetmadonnadirosa.eu/userfiles/files/51042063067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/24898888901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b84537af6c6541d93f51fb26309e4eed/wowapiloxiser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87vl7nicgp4bctvhe5nbhagoa4/mopezififitezixufovisubup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57ebf6b582fbd900ea29db0dd94849bd/51147594639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b4706b0d44a2f0a1e0ecd286d0ac8d3/45988320180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=nari+humayun+azad+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e06f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06F 18072 bytes
SHA-256: 7952944549dc690b32c06f03060b4c54d19da077f0010b472d807e91e9c4c083
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF1 20120 bytes
SHA-256: a101afa9b2e6bca3a39c3ae7c64e8752c5cf7c293d9b91c2042cf79786090e91
font_02_sfnt_off000131e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131E2 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 8460dc8c4cdc4d765b238f313469d0046082dd748747af125a434eb9d54ac728
font_03_sfnt_off00014958.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14958 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1