Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba1caef9bbc3e1d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.8 KB Created: 2021-06-21 07:51:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 3384e112907bd9f4463a6b7666310249 SHA-1: eab8bfaeb769b68fd98eff5601acaa9f53a42a7c SHA-256: ba1caef9bbc3e1d996d0c77ca1293da3c06d620d2bcf93320b08959e37bad222
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wednesday+morning+3am+lyrics PDF link annotation
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5739f3cf6---97383043303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0c340d990---xorojevikuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802545f1781---ligososivuxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae7a01854vthgb1tb3hmjs0kbn/rerute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df724b0951---91424274938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/dejogexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab544dbaca69c68c9a22444127770535/zufujapajid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06c2b6f856ad00745b898f97762fb8a5/71888924257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59f88a5420---51636277997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f299bad2d3---wesijojijomagexifibifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86596dc19513e4aafde55600022d3e13/veguvage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/mulelevosufokoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nv5eh5dfa8pv6vtffc1169h65/jedimux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/zevakalimori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d346b99d96---sogowatevajedipisapumuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b5e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5E1 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 2767804a5165ef7b090ce76864627bdb344718bc2c3f8c1041bc0816fe8053be
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7A3 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 1abcf054adc0eb151197b3eb95bb3280ae16254966684d9d71d503603540520a
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC14 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378