Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba1bd47751931247…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-24 22:18:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b4b0d35f5a38730395f28cacf450bab5 SHA-1: b1e1d48e53fa4aae1528b07adef64c6a7847f1b8 SHA-256: ba1bd47751931247b9b2acb6ca8c3aca47440f334494c86ded94e95f6bd4777a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or compromised external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/xagulewojax.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/laxoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e20618dc90---32982122762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5e151468d---vabuxuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fiv19pl4ufm8j9jqh5hdb897b7/varawekokitivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210515080830_lgkj6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dismaplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xulasudak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/64060664562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutskytools.com/d/files/fezezenuzowibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79c36b2315782c8e53503f629c2d0781/koxemugajosifiwolerir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/gajer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce739dbc5c---99014861594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14ittaftsu676adkcf2gr5q5l8/31098346716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd0607ae4f---baworinimiduxijitazorugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/bamutes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71fe7ee99bd78225929021b3f85b2836/72171408760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/sigaxolatit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-8/20210508112901639352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/56097419962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/94251624632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b693841cff7772cfda8c233b0fded75/69121459400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/tozavewedopetomiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad13095b59---12682591783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/42505227822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=libro+de+historia+tercer+grado+telesecundaria+contestado+paco+el+chatoPDF 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_off0000e6a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000febe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBE 10988 bytes
SHA-256: f32af9ca94411d73349d9422ace8c60505b53afb1f59f67f83438cf51b4d8118
font_02_sfnt_off000117c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C3 17704 bytes
SHA-256: 83be88d060c0a51db2bb6a0539319d717b20e35b65dd155c2601e1391bf75c3c