Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baad515a2cf9ba1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 19:12:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c700ba8d80375b8caf76a5b526692f74 SHA-1: 3faae0d45be203a11e0b29816c2fac02a1f22b62 SHA-256: baad515a2cf9ba1f5043121f861c4f8628e379dcf43de2e2ce36784dcde4bf21
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to direct users to phishing sites or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+combos+for+skull+trooper PDF link annotation
    • http://doradcyprawni.com/images/pliki/bitalavofugujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redeyeldn.com/userfiles/file/damat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shunnasato.com/kavururexajuvekiwuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614192c2c0f85---wimejosevowomifavekaril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/41743704819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/fafoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhomkinhtoanthang.com/media/file/nozudujokisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paraglider24.de/pics/fotos/1/file/fowadavikeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porfic.com/fotos/file/2626711731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/popisudezemixivukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapfenberger-schuetzenverein.at/userfiles/file/xajimegorel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albertf.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57167580189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301e86b9ccc---34607318476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newcar-rental.com/uploads/files/202109010248544796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/wirorakil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daming-school.com/userfiles/file/11551550602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60930124485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90967421774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99546756563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbjnews.com/data/cheditor/0603/files/gimaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4chan.ro/UserFiles/file/83268591331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/977f6fe10427b5d1286fd751bbbd52b4/sokomifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/ruwufusizutanorigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fc3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC3A 18876 bytes
SHA-256: 00af5e510411747c10d98071d199b1df48227bb9cbb9028cb9580aae3bd2465c
font_01_sfnt_off00012d7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D7A 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 13f13c47d721641832a015b33a695ea404577414e467b48ee963b1003a8c14c5
font_02_sfnt_off000145d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1