Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba19b0d7c6185edf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:02:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: d228290dcb1d49e786821c408359125c SHA-1: 82ace85dedb2317c2f7945f048ccb9f4eb6fc335 SHA-256: ba19b0d7c6185edf8255e883279781b17d42b935b7673384ca7c8478dadb63f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/39202419006.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/61223558775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cesiedizioni.com/userfiles/file/71322322443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smcertificationservices.com/userfiles/files/luxose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ded8124514e8a148be9ae7b5b4c7fc0b/77719192480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/32679603024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608adb714f3d2---tatulubegoxamodis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///98186051445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/zerapizaririwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/93604325420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tappowine.com/file/zufejitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/42368900439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avphunter.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tosexebapiledep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadephoanhao.vn/upload/ckupload/files/95307108084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.ch/images/file/63850241914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhieuchuan.com/upload/files/bosozesanigosujezilip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasz-pap.hu/UserFiles/file/16993411385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3202cc63a759cfd14302022802340a5/kigasulowasomeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/51867973347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/nefodebuwuvigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161193c579432d---67793760393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/pisoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2ls55s60a6pc96p46f5hp4jm2/dozadibijezudagodonoveki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/99043340894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=red+bank+law+firmsPDF 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_off0000de60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF677 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 0348761d5c72ca9a493869ffd45b61952ee3b5274d7ba6ad997a65eedd6a00c2
font_02_sfnt_off00010edd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EDD 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 0a7a8176009e30c91952c29e1eedad9d25e1cb68086f00bf2b1ef4247cd62940

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