Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bae2182e34052845…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:07:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 867a74be384a0e9dd2dde076d4ee6e62 SHA-1: 5e4ae79f3027539d293fcb63f6431c19fd65ea9d SHA-256: bae2182e34052845083a5f2302638764e0b080fbb9151040465c1d1fb9260378
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the PDF format itself often leverage embedded JavaScript for malicious redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=richard+weaver+ideas+have+consequences
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876d3d81862---10535999020.pdf
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0db3b01508dd30d30f477294cccbea56/11402429961.pdf
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de3e076c3f---83132448797.pdf
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb0e9d6121a---fonogozepel.pdf
    • http://thesecurityguardunion.ca/userfiles/files/zuxupureg.pdf
    • https://mygo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/336027949.pdf
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a7eba531fadd5bf110a963b60f4e5e7/73018318144.pdf
    • http://limuzine.md/userfiles/file/92674440790.pdf
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/kepavetutobaxej.pdf
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/34168524292.pdf
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69cf578a540ee6ae4710ca8b2e6ec611/wubuwoko.pdf
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783edfe9ba9---jufufide.pdf
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/52631567162.pdf
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30f994c88f---lodomenez.pdf
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/71743321449.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bf110c5cc---vusokiwofupi.pdf
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/xugupurakimat.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e441ba950d---zudadadanivoxosog.pdf
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/vikefumepigelalepijiwukoz.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/sofuv.pdf
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a18397daa---kodizotasewusirezikum.pdf
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/razurumaresatidutikiwer.pdf
    • http://xn--80aagkbrca3apkgkee0a1bi.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86437180647.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000116da.bin
983c353c4e0cca70cea64358904bbec023b90ea182b56fd2afdb4aaca175520e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116DA 10764 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012f72.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F72 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014783.bin
862b20e7b42f3c6cf561d05a5799448eebb72c53c30ce7364c4f00f1d6ae5a16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14783 18456 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001653a.bin
98d9dcc4e0dcd212716636e833c13889a3d853edb16b114edfb65e3f5777c010
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1653A 17732 bytes