Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba2e01dfa1203749…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-26 00:13:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 743f198c642a4d314b61876c8ccc230e SHA-1: 45078e7f85b71ced022600fde363cf2683fccd9e SHA-256: ba2e01dfa1203749f2823c4e3930002ce08f138543a948f2cfbbc9a0956b770b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document structure suggests it's designed to be a link farm, a common tactic for directing users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=oet+2.0+reading+samples+for+nurses+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45344893999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoogbegaafdennu.nl/userfiles/file/66583112954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panelshock.com/userfiles/file/34505781648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/45132025581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domki-kopalino.pl/pliki/digiwagubenelan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiw.bibliotekalesmierz.eu/img/upload/files/vukonilokadesema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161397756ddcdb---xudulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/kirewamuxiliwosubowipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/645ee3613bc5b9e64422898d342dab70/dipixodokemizovubununapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriramsteels.in/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xinal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockefellersgold.hu/editor_up/94001923369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/lebazezotuduwolemobinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j26clean.com/upload/files/ratemoxuzaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcentroamerica.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98761924033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhangngay.vn/uploads/image/files/xisasuparubulevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130322145dc0---21509168686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsentco.com/upload/file/jawatodawiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatyzvule.cz/uploads/86707504203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161397ada3ff82---70127003087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewhitmerlawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/folavuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41tg7v8g64i9ac0rv1m1jkadpc/letekufezuwuxuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae62b909fa5839d40c47c06160fcb16c/wakixokobejowodusosava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byty-pardubice.eu/UserFiles/File/filubakaxesitujoduva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toscanafantastica.com/userfiles/file/zozuvugolutejoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.posluh.hr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67978784690.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_off0000b141.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB141 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 53901dd29f276f5491e26f04eecd52837a9c3d27ae3954c72e45f3ea9db65338
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB83 15424 bytes
SHA-256: 23343be79d47055bbdd587a5b71519d4f5b77529e630271d87bfd2b929590c95
font_02_sfnt_off0000f28d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1