Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ba965de4c576888…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-08-10 20:11:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 885dc2727cec9cc8fe2931eed71ca111 SHA-1: 68c0c4f4943dc5c6a43b2b311790585661dd1f7e SHA-256: 4ba965de4c576888a336e5dedca752472900d6ac1d313a9f4a571630ee1dc009
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious content, which is a common phishing or malware distribution tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+utmost+for+his+highest+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://altinhediyeler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/39852248991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ge3cet2m9tedd9q9rksohcf6v5/gosamaxoside.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8467c69add0f1b7105f86af5488ea3da/42269426279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/timukavokukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a287414c5d7---94073250667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c36a0218e7f---46081010560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46354601276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9600fee935---69657596875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/sexulak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb98846148---wugodikomegusevopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816771f0766---sejalefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86304733f1a9cdf50286e2da1310082a/23926747140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24fd4ed330b8533155934b9d69a8f04b/76419506588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/jojekaputukolireviku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9c90b6759---pafobavefosidabopuposu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec9313de61f654412e317306c3af3a2/26418764700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6am91d7obejbdmirq0rlum1e2/tewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/29399607159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0b234e11e---91902094106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kdeeku29kmv0eg60pqld76ion1/bojenamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/fobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/80471693832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f98e131651---kivifosixejutuvolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kukanabulotibidemow.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_off0000d6c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C5 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 8b014a924165275c070bf9f5b13f21d1de6402953c139ed4ad451ff64ac30533
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10731 16860 bytes
SHA-256: 75c65766840b469d638f3fbcfc2e6b8f6ab28e4386ee4fed9b6a84478d121354