Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ba0cc0ce8158eec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:29:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 5e5785faf5c3ce4822678dd92082d498 SHA-1: db2a1258d1eb0e7c352cc34eec4ece7bf1815bd7 SHA-256: 1ba0cc0ce8158eecab00c67ef48576750347e2352e3c62ce2e1affee541856e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=4th+grade+go+math+workbook+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103f50605a6f---zotisekefajede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/36754034592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/88660414883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cowmoo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/petovovixemumonuxosimile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxethai38.comupload/file/rafavekususawatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurempat.com/contents//files/vekasonobogerazeruvufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/64096745232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ta-taiwan.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/tonaresupuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/89452921812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarcheluzzo.it/userfiles/files/fulakazinoxatifimevazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.singaporemedicalclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fepowis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4962bc749daa595c079a2b9610f21512/70438089638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3bd9e99cc8---rugorajuwejarabesalulure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/88225038267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ad90c47ef---lebodaxaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malverne69.com/clients/a/a7/a743c233813d1a1dbf5c38c484d85cdc/File/91949495636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/59604806444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adaf9ebd32fd034ec4a0197990eb2c60/goketirawuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab2ef5f296---72888296300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acfdb954987---57384714837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///dukuvelebenodadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yljx.cn/images/upload/File/50509873223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8340b85db3---56162399166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-2/20210702000917759364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.net/uploads/files/davabona.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_off0000c618.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC618 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 4fda2222b809534d825c3a260b1b64eeb8c9cc295b31b9d8c1adb3cbfa74d518
font_01_sfnt_off0000f194.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF194 10832 bytes
SHA-256: cb3fb6f3d68f557a2f8e9064a410037bf1a566fad313d04a75d8ad0b78e1435f
font_02_sfnt_off00010a3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1