Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baf5f4e31068055d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 04:55:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e5b9df7e156fa1cf54696340ca4f5d8b SHA-1: 74e8b98feb5469277ef3fd88328253673c840127 SHA-256: baf5f4e31068055d542f4d31b12d6ea7ddb8ccceb138dd671dd6c2cfd50c7746
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a browser extension installation lure. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=remy+lebeau+movie PDF link annotation
    • https://tatvan.in/userfiles/file/xikowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/larisefaratubulukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tandartsindex.nl/images/uploads/81389802123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infiniteprospects.com/FCKeditor/file/wixubevejonifudufetazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/92736819003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dbf0a940b9---dupiwoviravutefidojafaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7mark3t2-7aya.com/contents/files/61724918217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/40315105155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/kofudosatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotteppta.net/beta/assets/file/81536514084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsevolozhsk.mebel18.com/uploads/files/dazisixerepukuwebidanan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents/files/ziguse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://genarchi.com/data/temp/file/5617781231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjchenxing.com/filespath/files/20210913235432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/keruluxiborewejupuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c972ccd4d768e0a76c9e8f94f272d4c/31146353449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyermekhaz.hu/Content/site_images/files/ziterajetawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/bumenuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmare.de/userfiles/file/78459774008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodova51-53.cz/files/20181907142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f585471b6d2925570010ed98d46c6b1f/rolarimeropefelazadiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plaschke-partner.com/uploaded/file/39423589147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimedisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purepassion.pl/userfiles/file/gefaminelibobixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db04e534ee6ad1c8bacfb84103d2834a/kusoxuwi.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_off000108af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000120c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C1 19820 bytes
SHA-256: 04fda5783c48260bc552d5e389f7831651956c5460a4314cdc20c0e58e94021e
font_02_sfnt_off000154df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154DF 10264 bytes
SHA-256: a5b03d23df8b8edcf7c323d364eff06da12c1560f37d6e8bd4937aaf3347fc12