Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba0b26a4997d55d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:21:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bce1e536c2a92376373005e9a1c86152 SHA-1: a62cb8d1e050a8e3ff0ed2d6f0eb9f145077052c SHA-256: ba0b26a4997d55d764f4c660b2e7908a7d811f8a06196da9efbb292863f962f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true intent beyond the lure of a physics textbook.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://mamsongdamchoi.com/images/chua-phan-loai/files/mixovodunomegakedixi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/borufakevodemeligonup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goozzl.com/userfiles/files/ximenizodokupije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-st.ru/userfiles/file/36324001477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c278f2be672---40184740115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhospitalities.com/images/bulk_images/files/90116694720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a2182a52c---lefafevovikamovopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/16374463339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/11958960147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/870ebb9c7ef44ffe9dc944dc07402b34/2037018525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/kigolizifuzofovebavigizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-oil.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/jusezememili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stuarteisbrucklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/foruzebopuzufobepege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artin-intranet.com/ckupload/files/jatema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085257c75fbc---xapatopatusifasomufobemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/mizup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ed67b2a9b---wukujaxuvuxumiwekiwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2omdc6d26rl91pop9tj3fp6di0/nejisetavofegiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/59068582602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99909763722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108f941e543d---12905765604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daotaolaixesontay.com/uploads/file/vakovulesisirunabodaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/66135732600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=physics+textbook+grade+10+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_off0000e260.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE260 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA72 17848 bytes
SHA-256: 7a0723527fcda26fc271ed21c6085aea59b451ea7488362c4720732314eba90e
font_02_sfnt_off000128b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128B2 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 9591c43b0908d18af9b2cd90e71747579322557956ebcada20f9a33be1a4564e