Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba07d3dd678229ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:07:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: bbd1fea5fa67bbf20aec2c1f1bea9cab SHA-1: 395ed50683fdd0f81b4cfdd26193a32880263c30 SHA-256: ba07d3dd678229aba144f65da32b716d990a3c906ab5cb774b007e28c4579b6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs suggest a link farm designed to obscure the final destination and potentially evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/gizevoxijudozoranug.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a69017e7318---12691070691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eae3703ecb0ef5ca70a4d92e11e50a50/17788978922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/jesanojezox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873dc04dacd---juxurid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birdwatching.sk/media/file/jejojumuwinotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0346f4687fec98aaac9fde6d12581450/13553345701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/47131195267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0db7277380e5d833b705e619e65f522d/25864689220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baozhaopharm.com/upload/files/51763407241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paddockj.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/62398460521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b01b12040627d0c1e47c3c6abad78903/55000969283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20b5302b1e0e1243b294ee6a7d85f8f9/63663104889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galsabino.it/userfiles/files/43103612771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c671be3d6adca4ed264e94444e3204cd/lawawukosivukixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/zasomilajorexesalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38edc7febe---28650758258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7cc088e868---85969566212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/17140875406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b17b06e2672f3807def6a746bd5de3a/juvobijonavuzoxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5af80cfa16eb56513f43ffb827add204/wudasowenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4klqcn4128nqesbe3srtol9sn/56923637033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=como+medir+perimetro+cefalico+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_off0001169a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1169A 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 38370e411eba0a1b91dc70a7c7d7af1a60db563b7ad82b673539f11f8a4ca94a
font_01_sfnt_off00012e9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E9A 20468 bytes
SHA-256: 40ddca51e0d647a58ff720ab7c3c3581fad68e6b937a99cba8d6cf6198e75ad4
font_02_sfnt_off000162ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1