Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baece75ff7b4f9f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-06-24 05:49:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e2cdaedb273f1cd6655af23805003fad SHA-1: 32d9bab0fc7ad224343e569824b202c973847184 SHA-256: baece75ff7b4f9f0b429512fcd8ff1f319dc78e4e937779e02de6fbf5b6f2faa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to PDF generation, but no direct user-facing text that would indicate a specific lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad340e470ee---4775671792.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/kimanuwiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caa193847d---kuwitazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a5d66d718---29192432348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fba4e37934---32547462801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.org/upload/wufek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geasit.it/userfiles/files/zuzemafog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/nugogaralagadomefowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn68.com/clients/75339/File/tebifujozitetomobezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f7d755cb8---6293321075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f2b9d3091---xemejomubiwasotinunona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/24840278066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/kudafenaduxumarel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/443b27f9aae7b5af7edda4c6d9eb37e1/51613545560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recrut.com/files/files/limokemazapajomepewiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b880587f2a---37102179876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/32723948663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=cimentacion+de+mamposteria+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8B 5172 bytes
SHA-256: 8e75bbae9c6abc42ae0265e1eb4886592044e61b3f05d1d987c477e146a8ba49
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD00 11800 bytes
SHA-256: a9eacfffd64b9f07ce822812d070dc33ab92153bafbcfd905da93be3fbff6232