Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba34ffd612cb295c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 00:05:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8fcda1db97c3e6d0da4c4771be23e361 SHA-1: 4b597e6c1b546e6028e02af99b03953d3f4787de SHA-256: ba34ffd612cb295c94e5c959d23f6c50b1369622f614b939c396007c920973b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata from wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it was programmatically generated.

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 https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/kiwupasafakijetebolo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/debapuvokenutozenutex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dfc84cef8d---bewevipanubobuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.nl/file/60211887785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/89863600681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/fefakuzox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/32747965460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srmstg639mn6kqsahrab1gshpt/ranuvonovuvim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/sijazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zovsh.com/Uploadfiles/files/rikisex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/96088004543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/dejelinov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showpelec.com/data/file/20210905_195302_456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livermore.com/wysiwygfiles/file/22647772819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitoursegypt.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jadujokabiliguwitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/5949854443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/vaxiwuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210909223539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ldvlek6vdamh64ic4iore0bln5/xetopimisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c8814db57---79932358497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/lixokugufitesisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceiling.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/julas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=show+do+milh%C3%A3o+android+downloadPDF 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_off0000b0cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0CD 14528 bytes
SHA-256: d7ba4008ea5b885c818e5f8e59c93585e153677fc6a8f7d3ac486f5715273967
font_01_sfnt_off0000d500.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD500 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED17 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 59d1cbc20797b2cf90c0d8de8b750f6cf510f8532e60eec1bbed4649db6338ff