Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ba5302bf2d16885…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:58:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 58ca56c0f769baf8c77dc32e72ab5d87 SHA-1: 64aaab6aa424106698594bb283451008eddd8772 SHA-256: 6ba5302bf2d1688581eadd00f1bef00d4b14b19f4d805d15fde27ba808f8a45f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9kvp8ls5883ni6l9n66p3nrdhf/lotodojiziratasejiwiwa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur2.com/contents//files/siritibamaboki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202107311720188747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e756ceb800d7e21d1e4a63019b309ce/vowaxazosogozudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae65200db0---88583271199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dondepodemosir.com/userfiles/file/gebixutimotukuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/fifuseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942c6cb9a40---sorowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://missinternationalbeauty.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/904925889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5058c225952e98c99c54e8707fa3cb52/xapitamixepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducnhua.com/upload/files/84599809460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f450883e8e32089fea2f3b3189de031/nikapotitadafizikobaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruedi-leuthold.com/userfiles/files/50064519182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregor-biffiger.ch/userfiles/file/30586662118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c76c663487---77401317052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78056150a0---gevewomikikapaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8360cb6e18d400dcb1594013d64a50d/fusesapirulaletejixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774fc3af782---84071920676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wm-meyer.de/meyer/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wemiragusalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/86147663024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geniuschulatutor.com/userfiles/files/narewamupisirefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/zujiteremezowotakikezogul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph789.com/pinhsuan/files/file/28729555808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.lv/pictures/image/wovibizewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=going+to+and+will+future+exercises+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000bcdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCDB 16328 bytes
SHA-256: ee7707a897927982cb22317f17d2cfc16c3efb0a6df58f13718da92f1aefa73f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e70e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70E 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 8b9e495f9ca35cb1f23fe5b324d513990be7a0014ff5cfdc18cd5be3327ab372
font_02_sfnt_off00010114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10114 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1