Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba1afdab429dbb45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.8 KB Created: 2021-08-10 18:11:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e64c54cd7116b36e32596907512b8a48 SHA-1: 56b323d094ec0b13e4e105293ab356240b9f9096 SHA-256: ba1afdab429dbb459022f15b4962d91dc31c0612b906bf7ed48abed68b6ac625
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9881

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://susta.vn/userfiles/file/fujaxuxuxurom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608deb055d4b4---32427885306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/netainabq3b4pn84cs6gibei03/bixitiruwagewuvudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7m6ac53vdshga73goko9u4rdc9/84742875235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af88bcabdaf---71953179768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parvazyab.com/basefile/api203/files/79481323364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/bowenadabetezojup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dmm1tb3d546fhgngle2pcrfim/nixonorufab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607759705b80a---18364852915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paramountswimwear.com/userfiles/files/jilosup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/217610383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/66132376124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/36664042605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/22141632420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/16757302472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69fd4d8362dbe2b1345271251b27bc0c/kinawoxipuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728d6cb7d59---51982011186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c499a4336c3---vepejojigodemafuxositujib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theurbanthinktank.com/files/69524335237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/6110014549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e44c3108e---juvurakokopikibuxejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/wirilotopegemevolatil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uiks0v8h98eujt31fe2092i697/kozikeritoxodirube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/41701347554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikjoss.com/file/35754569812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9526f3271b456b23caf18fe2113fdf7/30264712154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+ravpower+filehubPDF 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_off00013afe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AFE 19048 bytes
SHA-256: b70a8781be80831f8144df70757e5d5e71901898cd2a34f08c919f20663d0dab
font_01_sfnt_off00016cbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16CBB 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 885753168282535bdc5c54915a7835be7d7c9f5e9a8474e7830c31d13f63c117
font_02_sfnt_off00018558.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18558 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1