Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ba27431c22e09a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 23:20:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f3333670ef12bed089b8b3e7b36f1e4f SHA-1: c65f548c3a8887987cd266aa5546fe14e8ca97e4 SHA-256: 0ba27431c22e09a7cb4577daba182800d942c239c796c7f3297d4926022c216c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing by leveraging a chain of redirects. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/061e1e88f8b654a1d2c43d0424f268e7/vagelodoxuwevixakubumetev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asv-solnice.cz/_files/file/35901418900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sintasyapi.com/img/userfiles/file/95151895785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/refejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highendteen.com/userfiles/files/61645575545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e5f5e7e963---70406480211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/8681608798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagrupacio.cat/file/38645269048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/sivuron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hastensandbreakfast.nl/userfiles/file/73690415172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokofontaene.de/idata/19666199630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2hudggc05d1e2sstsh6vpbf0p/femerefalunuvojakedise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/55928767089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scantech3d.com/files/60214227289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foxgraphics.paulsfashion.in/files/nazaboxuzibokapizefexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispecom.com/cms_dispecom/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/waribuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdjshg.com/files/file/64280889898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/3654947387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ee88f417ea---68612107611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/janoliwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.es/d/files/fidaxaxaxitokalewupejoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baove24h.org/upload/files/50389741229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/44978838945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=auto+chess+apkPDF 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://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_off0000afdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7F6 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 656be2434ee10d1c70b1124f2bed28ea9a2199ca4d886d6f04e4151893d3833e
font_02_sfnt_off0000df74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF74 15184 bytes
SHA-256: 43a40fb611b601607f74d3207e0699d013a2a7299e4798c46e98ece5e723b9c9