Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba36db171888f4ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:49:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7be279c0d56ff4b2af7b2a7ae8d1aaa4 SHA-1: 72b45e6c87ab35e3de2434f339eabd65f9f2ed79 SHA-256: ba36db171888f4ee7398eacd03006ff0dab2ded86aaa208871f1aa54799dba8a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document contains a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs. Several of these URLs point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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 http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/32831653237.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grandp.ru/userfiles/file/22202168767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/53921213225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/gujasivusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bde4c7510---nufuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c71509c4feb---ragegikupovuguxapawonoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klassn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17505819503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021061913062490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/255e297693850d476ae724fd705854a1/kowewebul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6i1e1m7mj40rtrg1907211gm3/zazukarada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee5886cb2e---24435727008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b2dcc1434bbea7ec7c02db020023ad0/94388556423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/70256505890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be262fec169---ludagepisow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cabf32dd19e---60601628498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/siponoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9773feb1db---pugikakozadoximotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/29503251771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a32627bb97---5622079147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3070b14c83---gelelovobovore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae2be8a24df61da13373fc1ea41d3d7e/rezelimitukamelarile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8765067877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608773735384a---dibivetunivibesoxuginipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c85c826023---botoneguzujato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=dengue+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off000117b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B4 10712 bytes
SHA-256: d91c3788c445c14b3de582f6e6a6da88db05c0616023fc1c75ae1e66e7c988fe
font_01_sfnt_off00013005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13005 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014817.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14817 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 425f9a23c488f4283a6cec2ada18c25f640b8144e0a6dbeff3a79554e0076530