Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baf2d4d9bd8f73ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:44:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a8103dd8884dd55b995d3079a25fb554 SHA-1: 58e71c6d604bd73a0a3990f735b60f36d2150686 SHA-256: baf2d4d9bd8f73ba2dc7a9c215fa261828cc827eec52fd629081c8ab3a6d69d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a 'link farm' heuristic further supports this, indicating the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=operate+pc+with+android+phone PDF link annotation
    • https://www.baust.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megexutofaparoxumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungnguyenjsc.vn/uploads/image/files/28113315647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cafbb2292c06daaa1357c9d96d3995be/98483159358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/5418438065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connectcontrol.net/files/userfiles/files/91208451812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peltonfell.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xegilibuliwolugifitepin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/56227176782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domusanna.it/userfiles/files/75328287302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsddesign.com/filespath/files/20210919071841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baruraprotidin.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/puzowube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88772093770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numen-wow.com/userfiles/cloud/files/6541296992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/11467907975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stigstudiotecnico.it/userfiles/files/30372715191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c7ea6e914f---42071816800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gift-founder.com/archive/upload/files/45956268162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavo-bazar.cz/userfiles/file/98930541288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trouver-une-ssii.com/img/pics/files/misizunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/33632404840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210904045435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smg.bid/ckfinder_userfiles/files/jisekabefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usgcambodia.com/userfiles/file/87477396658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowie.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/xajegeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldgreiner.de/userfiles/file/dukatabapebomokovoxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161477996d51f0---vatatobegur.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_off0000ebdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103EF 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 010528eca2369a01da6eacfda5cee9830524ed42afcc80ee46fec17ab1b146f3
font_02_sfnt_off00013204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13204 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 735d45e8962f9133e39f03da05294585796728ed2580f3d0627a77323ca65dbb