Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ba94aa5c32dcd2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:02:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 12038fbbbab29776dd03de15f5f3f1cf SHA-1: c4cfba98adb7b119e663feb2f5e8a480aad41534 SHA-256: 4ba94aa5c32dcd2a745545105de618e9dd4f6f7e5166e7f4fe29d903fdbbf6f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' indicate a deliberate attempt to create a link farm for malicious purposes. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pay+matrix+7cpc+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/856j006vujt9bi2htecujk23jq/lezotuvofitisorotiwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibunajcc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7653311693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2f1a71dc4---tojopijepowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38588e7dab---86304361661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mewijizimurusawijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushinamu.com/uploads/files/jugidenovowirisunexujekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/64226947232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/fipajesemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d84ab1a82e476a7d79e0f8159d6628d0/lonotojobubomeguxexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/fipekurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/22730898825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pics4us.de/userfiles/file/22798562465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/tejerowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdfgiare.com/upload/files/72780665510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akifkasaboglu.com/esatfisek/images_upload/files/vinikuzanojivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/mafajokireri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/80605319399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbox-technology.com/upload/datoteke/rifumokulawawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdaniec.com/upload/files/birudejumededik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff93ef97709ccdf485566b92b5afd2ba/23344258341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duproject.com/uploadEditor/files/10092710513.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_off0000cec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E0 10476 bytes
SHA-256: ab264a312f88e5e433b387c1895225b08c7117db3976828125542f383e8bd7d7
font_02_sfnt_off0000fec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEC9 19556 bytes
SHA-256: 5a13b69335b24cdc2ba4785b1c34eb6011fa73556094b53657d52711ed84e924