Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba2f33d7e27ca59c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:28:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 406f838f4995512236d278e89e29d975 SHA-1: ec85fe99aefda648cb5930d22a532e9df3a9b202 SHA-256: ba2f33d7e27ca59c837b53afb535f31ff2d0f32acca916bd72d61d406de9096f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=correct+the+errors+in+the+sentence+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b5dae6c02---95107206122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/70420063341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiwum.wyryki.eu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86393162510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce09d6078e---tomivugizoradili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/xazebibozuwuxilirowagil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2p20b48li4f4dbothvl503peut/7286700230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9403083968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://distriparkbotlek.nl/userfiles/files/3553309162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bf083df70---78298736101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njuhome.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98648246531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/825e5b24919baab267aaed585da245dd/sawonunatazepudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roxburyhs1987.com/clients/63080/File/65851277753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuchina.org/userfiles/file/dunuxijagezat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/vuvujufus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pietroquatriniarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/wuxagukuluvinobik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/39837179076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/12011218732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8b4e019911---80369966816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075563500d3a---51799977621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/mutagorowakuvuwopoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/83661238036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file//files/nuxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/didifujesuritesulekedeb.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_off0000d317.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD317 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB29 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 57486d0949010a6bda0473191f025420893a02a4d0c13f3a61a96d891b609c0f
font_02_sfnt_off000117f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117F0 10328 bytes
SHA-256: fef9a3160ebb9c68b5b1173e5330cc30666c75b3ae1c3aa34a7f801924b81ba8