Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bae4820d6e44645d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-08-30 23:51:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c56dfc852d4c2505332f57e98eeee9f2 SHA-1: d62116a7228e041e4d1e3b2688947754c19e8f41 SHA-256: bae4820d6e44645d5ca467c595088d46bed3c6b893e327a60774fc9898c8cfb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The sample contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5967e00c5---35962767302.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64u1fpi1g77r0s6emhnlbsclh2/susapodatekaxitekujipolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06c04ccf34---88672624432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94a9ff23cceac09ed64f8a982298c497/91948089067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9e88b76e2019320162b4522e58ca650/56233458828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/geginan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glastergroup.ru/userfiles/file/notefidefupigenurezij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/52084387303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orangcar.com/app/webroot/upload/files/18594632359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ad2e6e14e---vuvijis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a49248178c---37900548210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-7/20210607043740185707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/61509877370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lineshare.net/upload/files/20210726140036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lkmnu9d1gsbesnlqsjnpsdb66/xudomipozikupome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbt4gk1v68i3mfjnppvdoag8gu/tovonozetetagudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074509a335bd---10216126127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevinctekstil.com/resimler/files/73745770455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0f37e6b07---90431820037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080109e0a1b6---2775320253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/39837700370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipsclubcr.com/campannas/file/77493564242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/44810440024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b0835e5b2d---verebudogefejozusavoparit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=all+ingredients+to+make+potions+in+minecraftPDF 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://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_off0000dcbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCBE 16324 bytes
SHA-256: 2b6ff728bf2c21a93f0b7e9fd9387ef305abfdcbea9128483553db98ee014c8a
font_01_sfnt_off000106a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ebf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EBF 11036 bytes
SHA-256: d1595c9ae7099d4bc6edf2f877e66eab41752e31ccc14ca46110772fe3195e0c