Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baea3819d9e2a54d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 03:55:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 61650306cec2b36b8bef2ef158585316 SHA-1: edd41c3ec43cd7487878923f486c53feb3751d8a SHA-256: baea3819d9e2a54d427732d131b4d3b1df8f8d4a07c9ff5ee47fda2ab39ff7d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=emily+wood+barrister PDF link annotation
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c83be2c844---xuxekogezuwurudedizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b42dfbcc9d---57436183763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/61529371970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/mawibiwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089baff486df---malomosozopimege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://train-in-japan.com/images/blog//file/kisosezaxonitubikaminago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cb6cc456b1fa7cdb29edfc3a3e967a8/befutumijomexedemijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc53b3c75d---lopimupobuvoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/56185579648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de031483bb---66018851886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents//files/93948523934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3afe84eaa1---23176402262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d87ee75ab4d7b3e96bf34f0926556d2/5610958851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b6619748d0ef8e00849ed55191681a2/lafupanor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4e047483fe---fogulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bedvtp1nhjp9ilvf0ihlo5omu/sovena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manualismedicina.hu/fileok/file/22702942311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83c83b685ebb437e565533c1fd502c56/84569953660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/822619945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///vebekolisewovesofoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbf4f1dbf1---lufan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f40b6fa560d37ad6dd8040ac371f6021/piser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b012e04320---putufowaxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab5f22ff98c2482c2a5df6483afa38ac/34962693985.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_off00011b1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B1D 17936 bytes
SHA-256: dcf718ae64771dd269092e70efd75a13ccd7d2d3f411999b4b2f7c8d1b6b70cc
font_01_sfnt_off00014a3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A3C 10628 bytes
SHA-256: b65adcdf0f2917e0abf29738d66270079fb661585e82505a311973251f074c04
font_02_sfnt_off0001629f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1629F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1