Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba18626c15927eb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-08-13 09:21:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: dac9ae1659f2c28c3e937ccc901512a5 SHA-1: 3e2fce6a864d148e4dd6546c598f7a9fb9655d5a SHA-256: ba18626c15927eb8fd72ddbb106d8a48ba5c4e6d3922b1573a2df75514d70eb9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary function appears to be directing users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA+7+%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81+%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82+%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA+%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8B PDF link annotation
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89c1380b1f4eb24056c2ea7cd5272258/70543205006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726b7d1ab88---30954381205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/23675775802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/todudisigawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annandale1963.com/clients/69704/File/25895274860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dijladentalcenter-qa.com/userfiles/file/85734133184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3996e8b23f785b269992c941ea11952b/3579849328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a258a82d1b2ba5c998ffd77fbbc4e17/kixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a823c63ffafbbdf433fe085f3f27e640/98956188322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggmtc.net/userfiles/files/37843631891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/khmd6h53tct8nnlstkat4624f6/81958777210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanpetrochemicals.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/wizisololik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p448iv7rnc5tdtvegfqvslirp6/kegonen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608191afeddf3---89794990746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/85615294886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210729201401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senfina.top/uploads/files/gidopaxare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-apartments.pl/data/pages/wipopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biemmecommerciale.eu/userfiles/files/47878510525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/gevuwumunerukimisotawemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6925c692b9531707a2d62f4114bd0680/nixivilof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/52831321957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pandoraecza.com/genelresimler/file/nudamebuzazifaminidizavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE492 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fca9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA9 11424 bytes
SHA-256: 91401d3a0eaf116fab72c85fce6d460b1d67c95a0a4328b3863b6535a6549cf5
font_02_sfnt_off0001175d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1175D 22068 bytes
SHA-256: 80121592e171190448ce3cbe41be83e49a25d66fb99ca282971f62dd380c979a