Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba1980a96eedd222…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:09:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0538597e3235b4e3c03946ec742d9ba8 SHA-1: 5f0aa391cdec84657165a89e05d8db5fec8f5aeb SHA-256: ba1980a96eedd2222e0e4e3c2a89d7b18d3f0e8adbd71e746e2789274ce62875
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/34433346983.pdf
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d6c67a1c1b1429542a253947ec8c7ba/wanoj.pdf
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47b3c55fdfa25cd7a533744e30cc7bab/994208135.pdf
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/156b2f0a4a5160402e30223d005360b5/sufopi.pdf
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074f8a1bf6ea---rakilazejuzipin.pdf
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a957970f66---pagilavugolulefew.pdf
    • https://arzhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xukufobumofa.pdf
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b49h952a2he3mdc7cvudstss25/37458107072.pdf
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b7c27811d3eb1fd35f9a66d08095f88/lobatav.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20ea5f23d2---49264139327.pdf
    • http://yomamasushitogo.com/uploads/files/nabesegekinuluwomup.pdf
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0437fb3afdb12bb6a6268e0ab9714f3e/24232896189.pdf
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4da78e17888c32e983e3fb6f31e268d0/12080320553.pdf
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/wupijoleravepizof.pdf
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be6882f934---bobudipirotiz.pdf
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/63407319307.pdf
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adab02732c9---guterobasejuxewufovixuge.pdf
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/kegoju.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=numerical+methods+for+engineers+solution+manual+7th+edition
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c35d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC35D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000db6f.bin
1d828343d3e882f8bce91854080463de8e0bd97050630e3608f4bca11072df7c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB6F 17156 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010833.bin
bcf1fedbd2993d49af234f72743e2691ce03e4697eac288737c64e03f9a1c364
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10833 1772 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001108f.bin
435cbda1c693049423e9d45ba247e7583b95cd0fd6a094451b8b9cb10f14ae98
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1108F 11052 bytes