Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d73fac048f8ef37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 03:51:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 32b14cc0f16a314a649db2f36b3c1cfa SHA-1: f8e84a851fc91b503e3cff213bf5fda425ad0573 SHA-256: 1d73fac048f8ef37f27ae9cb6dfe589dd405e4f5cf1511dd31fb0b62b03b4988
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories. The embedded URLs, such as the one hosted on baanpowertrain.com, are likely used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17hughq3pthm4gr2rtgl6se7p4/50879562692.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608651c20333c---duwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e400600b98b64c62ae9fdc6ad6e43ef/2954163105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dq439a24ulnm7l1lrfvkkmbq8i/9252796347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/65472987092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/86161544670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/67350849912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austintownfitch1980.com/clients/879833/File/fivoxufenurawigijeguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtaixin.com/HangShun/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nikitazirogizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/toimitb9683ait5luf2l19d52q/88784695871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents//files/porawexevuzukuvipemeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsi-international.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xewutopijimuvolexatajifap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a4df23f25---ladodazojozofij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607924f787cbe---xosavel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19df3bf737513020948a926d731114f4/suvenule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9755a0f264---47959888056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/25221978074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35808019471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085eee22ea54---ludusexedexifedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hgt0u8eiqu480qsvssj0r2sg2/bufasafaralisugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/jakapelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/sozurojuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abf5df7f0ab3805c6324feb67a38527a/metupanaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abca8ac0bff---42529202538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=rem+everybody+hurts+chordsPDF link annotation
    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijZRCIrTgQcIn PDF document text
    • http://youtu.be/he8X8Iy7OiUIn 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_off0000cef3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEF3 17420 bytes
SHA-256: f847580bf29c351c84bc04b4c60af0808b817bf21ee6f016bffabc2e63b7abbc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4E 10696 bytes
SHA-256: f1e56f29f72f9c803d8aa283743350af6d6332f0bb28a9964527a3d70827fceb
font_02_sfnt_off000114ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1