Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ba6fc3684798538…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:23:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b76495a379e935907003ed18756fcf33 SHA-1: dce7ef0241951c07cd3f6a1ab23b896d81656279 SHA-256: 0ba6fc368479853802fecd42e44b8b7134aff639737f86e43c408909f1d9a0ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicate a strong likelihood of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://saigonford3s.com/uploads/2021-09-01/images/files/71263164321.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n62ikljig9nh0is69o6rdnr0f4/63693394154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/122c4vvr3b4k7gpubrnr84fb2a/ribolozujekonaxinuverineg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcroyale.hk/userfiles/22005916289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609841aebd15f---josipexijabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/mupekevoganapugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-eamplus.de/web/editor/files/bowixawanepanaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/wababesonexogufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608251e712044---10591123908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cc35c0d6f---7631559555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5fdpmog75fuvessi07qpjm0s0/gozibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tskrea.com/userfiles/file/vuxejizalozaribitakubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kclandscapes.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/gigilapopinubesapax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/1537764648609653ac1c351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wotfiles.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35185528789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/fefomofapobirigek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c43b5317d90a48431edb949f26173e7/76072269080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hubbardfamilycircle.com/clients/62940/File/nodibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/noniluzatafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d446e9d53fb---wilupowasawosunelagedigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.childofafrica.org/media/userfiles/file/jikadujilajonaronan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611960ed9cfe4---14646198899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/1622760277127091324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=cyber+security+job+interview+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off00010139.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10139 17276 bytes
SHA-256: 7151c8f266b2280ac60eaa92e57d77df75aba9cc07b8ec91ae95d6a31e0ee00f
font_01_sfnt_off00012de2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DE2 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 7fd943c518137b5040abc6b6c3f17e28641b51b57cf43c7095ff5d57f933a54e
font_02_sfnt_off000147e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1