Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba07f811836c9398…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 21:20:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 99a65cf9b5497934a47b2bd731f6b200 SHA-1: 7ffc4abad38cba91c7700fec3334e901ac18b58f SHA-256: ba07f811836c939815b946cbaf369570b7a1a80819fc74e382978548a91c008d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external resources. Several of these URLs are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://www.gitialiganjlko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12690855812.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/2905454074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.com/media/ftp/file/17740311182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142f786697cb---69391799641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impressivetravelvietnam.com/upload/files/xixukevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/98511574000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/xakopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/pulijuzamenijidipik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jindi2010.com/uploadfile/files/xazupunes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpos.sk/data/files/vuberibuweza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofcourselc.com/admin/uploadsfile/8967545823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterlootour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_88E1A467627B92AA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--82ca1bkibi6eufn5bh1b7i3e.com/UserFiles/File/kodezifomadelebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161335a544c6e0---diziroxenipulesazoviwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmdg.com/upfolder/e/files/20210923213811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161445f2cefc45---jubuzasakarodilofuvupezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e994ad456---gidisamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/files/31042445752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/71260575561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.iwan.co/userfiles/files/35553279505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-jtech.com/userData/board/file/34195696506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fresh-cherries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50332920537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diamond-marketing.cz/soubory/10241259327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=surface+pro+6+vs+7+vs+xPDF 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_off0000b3a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3A0 10696 bytes
SHA-256: a22aedd55d88b1eef8a6d12dcffdf2090529501385b4fa748eb6c8e0558b2c0a
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC62 16492 bytes
SHA-256: 248faeb1df214347d7d66ad4a1cd4fcca76e38560eb1c67bf8ee49e73a329628
font_02_sfnt_off0000f70c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF70C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1