Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba2a5b232aa40073…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:13:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 37273397435d10e48f230f95438766b1 SHA-1: d135cd02ac4363b18901d9ecfe1b59c19e374507 SHA-256: ba2a5b232aa400736822f8207b4379423c9a3b8f67ff15ccf0e06ab64ef331cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 0.9973

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+words+of+greek+origin+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29667384534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/66945366116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/78015008610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29ef2ec25d---73048048770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c222e607ee1c5ec5e5855d580d992685/pepexurop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/2021851950114943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/likepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32575929794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/68214887571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e3e1427f6---23942201064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///dokupixozaxaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6rgrpfug87aocks1d0o2j865k/wejajefaxogipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d406646d153b7cad24751014a12840c1/gizigatosivuzezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f2d1b707b624eaac267167369faee39/42472628647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jikanebalibipirutisuzoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinoboxingclub.com/clients/36032/File/40517797560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----1-6cdapb2bdyqawnpcindqfc.xn--p1ai/media/file/70174033756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agenziadiviaggiocagliari.it/file/konividozavokinetat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77qtubq2doj4v20vm6n07hcfii/gozonujinesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucchetta.net/userfiles/files/55053171125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0cfa284382213c209b643673af788de/wenezebago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f427d8d31e---37551995583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sofolegaxukowunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f5b0462adba96f6c6cd77d25edb13e1/tepukorukoxepevowatam.pdfIn 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://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_off0000c308.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC308 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 276bf5ce9c08cf83c512fe368862af7e613f3da70b6b4024d451001d96440b91
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE0F 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 24e9df78b3a0ae3a1cbfe15925087a5fb4f9fc8d2164ad0c045dfb9ad7bbb9dd
font_02_sfnt_off0001063b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1063B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1