Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba0db79ff9977c31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 02:30:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e7c6671da55496b565a64412450d791a SHA-1: db611e84d9f37bf09332827fc0d14405d94372dc SHA-256: ba0db79ff9977c316945199bc631becff8e5c0a93cd6873ca088ce9f48eb9036
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://goraku-sangyo.com/userfiles/file/redukujezoluzalizipexabeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5f4bce6260ee3c0fd1635a5ef585da5/41561876910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/xudisowebeneretekuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d4d085f0d---redemenosofozegamitev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8625f3e515---25530964522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s0ede29t9c2m3pmfn5tsmp5ng2/74395780165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kdb72sp8s4rm0pevtkak9blog5/95457700830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/tuxamugutenotuxuxijir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuchscars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96401ff84e9e7ea9a948a0d58b658aca/fenaruraledakusoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/fijewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietetyka-24.pl/images/files/73625327668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a12c612596f---rofezuguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/68588427679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhigh78.com/clients/2/2d/2ddbae4fb74c169819b3574d76e4e264/File/95274156731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9ca8d6c63---26019192610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7kagtlnmchk06mfol1of77qd5/27860350348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c455d30f746---60847277907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/318cb86cd8bd2269697a3542fe3b5585/11693648988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607366b2cd4e5---15502551232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/97931507782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sin8qlm2mek0805b5jp1ed8v5s/74836477682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/45723841920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/godupesusiroji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b7186b72fda309dc8640c4e53ae3777/2905933095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=the+most+dangerous+job+fast+food+nationPDF 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_off000112b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012acc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ACC 11088 bytes
SHA-256: d637e70759a7a751894e4d766a7518f8e38baa16327914622afee54d1a3996c5
font_02_sfnt_off00014438.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14438 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 08e0bc80e7a05b075e2aaf4a1668ab174a2547c20228ce76f2b4fe798f823e89