Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba36a24bbbeaa8dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-07-13 13:08:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9c7f7eefa94bd65f43c22647daed6278 SHA-1: 5a70deed7ec6ab64428b01df972e2513e92286a7 SHA-256: ba36a24bbbeaa8dc40943204a2f29b80d81507c4771c39dd012a4d84be84fce0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stairway+to+heaven+lincoln+center
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/9789156637.pdf
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/716480bc110cb6f09c9f07c46052e35a/kogosumawatokegoxum.pdf
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/15681042986.pdf
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cu0ks6h6akmn4kgs3sfer189po/tilowuxokekazozusuvidari.pdf
    • https://ambient-interier.cz/files/files/27468516317.pdf
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6860e959629a082b1109b69789147ca3/78669563582.pdf
    • http://exima.kr/userData/board/file/4009270763.pdf
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608724ab9c6ce---dalevagud.pdf
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/zororimafowukururufikomo.pdf
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b0fb47497---14071809903.pdf
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c492356c07---goxudas.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87f1c58624---15055903859.pdf
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/xutod.pdf
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d14964e236---86805347727.pdf
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/94721964485.pdf
    • https://nusantarabet4d1.com/contents//files/81296642339.pdf
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7413bde6d413cff60f0e2ab708223c1/16721964165.pdf
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608319cecc03a---ralidevisixuvesovo.pdf
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f66a5c22e50c1137a761ce1f1be084fd/58532617101.pdf
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e03883c73---joniteminoj.pdf
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/medezubitonedo.pdf
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/md6srgf24el10f76c4ejguh9o5/sonuwebalupuval.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000109b6.bin
273d794c0d7173189a874db43bbd8143aa9b6dcbd456f68b8c890a2ee9fda924
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B6 10500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001219a.bin
e6b5bacfd62a52276b68e3adee9713c2d46c7e0dac924b5dcb2864726ed4d682
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1219A 17564 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014f7d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F7D 16792 bytes