Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ba1c5d1beda40a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-07-31 07:09:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 95ed3df21c68ff69130c84f6aa1732b4 SHA-1: 6eb1df32a7eea330f72369887e200c865c68cc49 SHA-256: 3ba1c5d1beda40a5a99644ba4b75d7e6ee74eb43e3017b3ea40dd550931c60aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of embedded URLs further supports this attack pattern.

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+a+hot+work+permit+allow+you+to+do PDF link annotation
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079860b9625e---pivonizelivevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-acm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rizizigipanapaxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838c18751f5---gerenuvosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5835feb14b5bc36afe13587ceb9723c/37662082956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7lcqg8dl417k2hgnh3b4ug0s3/78995781181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/naworebalugikabejefoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094e58c5ae4a---karetixosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsiwww.com/image/files/20210714_135042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090931271e2c---zuxezajuvafutavuzatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curewelldiabetes.com/userfiles/file/13175539973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/ratulezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1363bf4e3c8dd3578344aaceaf8dac4e/lewafalilerejipemebugixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c45e2440088778f7aa7a70e9cab3aa8c/degiges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fae625f756---180739367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/mapasofaxezesomagewena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://justbuymeds.net/userfiles/file/suxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l11d45hu25h9gn7bqaqgf6ruc6/zaletewobotunuguxaxebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/gamujogebugevumuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/xuripakekuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/11824661877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161009e77e5a5c---36136034747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hersheyhigh1981.com/clients/37302/File/dadimeboresojabuvulaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/98974563390.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_off000116d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116D8 16876 bytes
SHA-256: cb20fe00640debe770e6f5644f787b94a162c4986013a35ac43a2cfb0378d503
font_01_sfnt_off000142eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015b02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B02 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 1c974dba651a36ba2f527ff113d17c10869347470324f126029c0f37c6dd4a94