Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bae0cb0ebef36e22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-10-13 10:31:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d303ddecd8c5aadc145c218640a7e291 SHA-1: d36f88d7776043fb5b1580c98c209dc0bf6cd103 SHA-256: bae0cb0ebef36e22ca0fe1d956c2c17588ebb7dbcfd83c8184e887c62bc29b83
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document's structure suggests it is a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely prompts the user to call a phone number, a common tactic in tech-support scams or callback phishing schemes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/begolexudizol.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/54595532211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polenes.cl/userfiles/file/78696182910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francois-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gisexesapifuboxojimewiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16161dfa6a3fb0---41898102707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/66030539331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perksys.com/userfiles/file/76367837756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p9pubj18h8togi2rqjqcai72eg/24064889738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxfreepoint.com/file/86291022874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doingthing.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/nobilosefozixufiludulekex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/satepalarixifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/jomewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karcannakliyat.com/userfiles/file/basolerip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/45085501398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutinlawkrabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bipegifumevegidupozejuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doggystylzgrooming.com/admin/photos/file/57733008132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksi-system.pl/editorfiles/file/44449343784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repairbase.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/images/file/35217004087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vconsole.com/ckfinder/files/32277334198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbkf.org/files/files/wagezulopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fe647dac6eda31813d6cb97860f7c49/rumosilotetovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idcla.net/upload/files/92334231500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianlanip.com/filespath/files/20210917190102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phayaotechno.com/UserFiles/File/13040444443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/vItLtdF7Pec/uplcv?utm_term=act+june+datePDF 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_off0000dba6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA6 19280 bytes
SHA-256: b60d17a121170675546b6d0b6ebca879925adbe54279f24c7f273c136f24074c
font_01_sfnt_off00010e5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12672 10048 bytes
SHA-256: b9fe21e5e0844f79cf7c31d62b3bb4ca42804c3c8b04e87a62c530d951edba75