Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bae287206637918a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.8 KB Created: 2021-07-14 05:03:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 94a9d9aaf221ab29a2c53e7092b474cd SHA-1: 77bcd975456f50181e34a0cf38a8fa9178b9a6a9 SHA-256: bae287206637918aab34d3cd766983500267b00ec9b59a400babc6707b0b6ffd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics reinforces the phishing and potential exploitation vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://nct-vn.com/userfiles/file/69902484722.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879c334f56a---zumajodogezabagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086963f90d0f---bazarinemofatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33680ab31858ee98c8c96eff405f086f/30295968365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fq96h26067qvt301q76qhebar7/bifonavifidojixijepiwivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyextractor.com/d/files/wagozewajotuzuxulukuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607920a6b9d45---16663203497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/120986fad7137c3f1c1fd0da88859ec7/22654964186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citranco.com/users/files/20901580989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actybrain-consult.com/Upload/files/wonaxuwezinaduxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapetcenter.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/41305095559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitalclassof1970.com/clients/e/e7/e78cae7b17622b0161c193cbd63f4fd0/File/97287884759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d048039ae6---96071222545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4f5f38962---ninutozufovebabafokenugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844ce07e5df---bawaduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mauchlineware.com/html/chapelstreet/web/userfiles/files/kotinizide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fed6ec258f---63295963384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/86676795526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/dududugopefalebiwebefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basumati.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34546868398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6d068fe1a---pufudenadiperaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnj6noi3cllunh20da1t9n0ec0/39291167882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=thinking+maps+templatesPDF 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_off00013118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13118 10532 bytes
SHA-256: a1b33ae2000c14c8afcc50a552eee69b85a4b8cc25664a54583a3921bca8e1b8
font_01_sfnt_off000148e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148E3 17332 bytes
SHA-256: b03468e69038c8c964799260cbff70dd87af91a517d9f8c6d87c0feed8044262
font_02_sfnt_off0001760b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1760B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1