Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bae3e210449302f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:37:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: be80c1fba9f74078ac06e4463c7fda1c SHA-1: c43a1ec0434fe7be237a0148a44d64c4be479138 SHA-256: bae3e210449302f6f0b013e2eed946beaa30380afb279853eafdae4bc3b24763
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware delivery. The file's structure and numerous external links align with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=organisation+of+root+apical+meristem+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://happyjourney.webtrails.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50745676479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/17957791422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morard-mcf.fr/data/Files/munebimanafemitexuwasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86cqvhg4s49bcsrrjapnhlugqt/1409658510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34a4458f2c1a0dd47998ae63c7741a19/3394137287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/dasizuselariniselopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma--style.net/files/files/kexumutuzirizoranuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/6239775493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthodoxnews.us/file/97434594392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608986e2d0c81---taromanukab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jump360.co/upload/files/20210616081358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f325b6d142171f14e83f18115b56f6b/63669936496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46355436554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/gafefarataxasebasow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio-september.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0510ec17f0b24ab51cd8059ec9e83511/ropagoxawirigaromof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daa7abb2300---tiwowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wct.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/noxida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99bbe3d70ebab20d35db4f64f565b443/58251188709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608358c188e37---sotosufasubup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degeninhotel.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48241661341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondachem.com/d/files/33726466412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db8d32a45afa1379cc7cbb650d1cda37/doganiwegopazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exlite.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16072886011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquarell.ro/userfiles/file/nuxuroledoxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whalesart.com/uploadfile/file///2021062216485775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52asgpht7vtusqk3tflou87g5b/49868984465.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_off0000c87b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC87B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e092.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE092 10988 bytes
SHA-256: c8439f6ddc0e8c03e7c24433a8ba0c7c746626a11cb6a1e07d5d21beec78c0ce
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9E5 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 169161c0a77fe38b301623a033b7db449246a91e85af7309590606ba2850df34