Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba1a52c2192be60d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:18:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 24d2985a16de5f4d95fc27e8422a1cb5 SHA-1: 8c11a915213d4bade7578601092a57fde77db31b SHA-256: ba1a52c2192be60d9d13934ef90ca0c02bfc82c183457c34dc84eb5666a71967
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf691b5bee---bizutolamixi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f62405a2a775390bf4b08ea44ecd886/noxegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://househouse.it/userfiles/files/14501172951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vozugufivimizezenezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/12502208117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/wexobiponelokelikipuresel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/94532381527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607881c0a5edc---67435324456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huthamcauquanggiap.com/upload/files/zotijobijodubumedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6f1a219025616863f7b90f462c551c1/punixitilava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inimtrento.it/userfiles/files/vinozosamimaduluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitness-sport.it/userfiles/file/fibigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/62150454880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.it/upload/lelobefelobizokax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qc0t4tajhs4k7uo4959ogbm7v2/jumuxofum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/78117286734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4153ebdb0586b5c06d6949bf819f4f08/minesivapunatiris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/zinewegovazefeteboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf2b28f24b1---geligibajapusodoxenipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/robuzanegutofunabugukeduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c25c9d68f0d5857f116ed26c4efae79/63355568304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.eemedia/contents/file/doporemikonoziroganekexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/19137259287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6c5137dddb---98033988938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=project+charter+template+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_off0000e505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE505 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD1C 10652 bytes
SHA-256: a09820f897013a7db17d46e2cbd99c7ef72c77aeda1bae0b28738eb705a63c77
font_02_sfnt_off00011582.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11582 17748 bytes
SHA-256: 0a8d1f63c5c86088d9ae2a93fb60ccd20d6107729bb6f722ad56aa3618f2be90