Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baf346d9baafb498…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 00:37:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0580e292415ed76d4244a8fcbb0f91ba SHA-1: 91313f74cf66bc0d3678d58c305e1b93a103ad9a SHA-256: baf346d9baafb498229749456cfd9dcd2be1681d051aa35f12f090786425222a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm nature strongly suggest an intent to exploit users via external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=joint+tenants+with+right+of+survivorship+and+not+as+tenants+in+common PDF link annotation
    • http://maristaslardero.es/userfiles/file/kelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daivupaint.com/img-chamthi/files/85529631616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b824f4f6c6---92499265046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c2042a349---41057815761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bea1cb420db6586bf981dca25f9ecd6/nukisoxubefasetub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b57fbea134---sisogezikusiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawrence-spruill.com/clients/42275/File/filatika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a068bb33641650706bb0a70d35c3ceb/20490270624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b9982e65e---30344907077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/29215632660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/27064463033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iohborcv6mpdbntnfabbolk18m/19338581909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f18de10be3---4032856136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/68472844002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eb9cdbda286c0bf19f59a1e64ed55a3/tizawizonexolotakiziwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xufadetovivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50276f854e316c516854a25813e87106/xezowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sisparts.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/34262209834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b002481b6d4c7cbf4dbc8a73ad728c51/gojidorajigojazerewarokog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roocenter.ru/upload/file/65087538354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946e241b8ad---60640154326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/virevosaravap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4c94412374---67861152137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhcumsgjuo30mpe2q8j9mhvnm4/tikanawimamuxexufiledazo.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_off0000fee9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE9 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 08d74b78fb1dbd1b6ffd0cc55db8186f4cc80da2e3408c57b3f8d61f60ce255a
font_01_sfnt_off00011919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11919 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001312b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1312B 17052 bytes
SHA-256: d2c1ef438fc064c73bb9f1e80e9b0e7b24f42f406ddcc126eba68207e23c20d9