Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba42e3336faf2c45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:54:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f7a57e9cc21e217dc68149ece9cf5a39 SHA-1: a11a2572094902703c18780f9a5e66db2be052c6 SHA-256: ba42e3336faf2c45d3989a51511d99a706b586cec7fcac8bd290661062878fd2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vukevuxinemoragobixovex.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://digireg.it/upload/64173882301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073066e48b40---kadegusimomisapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5033a267f669b9e2fb38451bfed28692/39259141758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f786bc2df13---51423115914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/83334656616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/59300219795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05d6594dd2b7e14f0f8a0aabe9e2f210/fuxezesova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhigh65.com/clients/4970/File/sanosadugesuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4687f7957dde5b43c44469969cbeb09b/burup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad51f197a5e---73734909754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fasrks4cjgnpd31ltobgjut6c5/vofixexalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/woxejugiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/704e35b03013cffd858493283bb6cbf3/woxuzafizopukitojigudixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/015a2011de4548ffba6939cd154bf75a/safagetezelavewenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8b0d6f959---32559461265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/woterewajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airelimpio.mx/img/editor/file/14376948306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6d1d8af99a---xofip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=calendario+biodinamico+2018+pdf+gratisPDF 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_off0000d697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD697 11636 bytes
SHA-256: 899788eb43d25734b7fcb75f860a9bb334584275270ed948f97e444440b08ad1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A00 19276 bytes
SHA-256: 9fadecda32290e9ae3cbd58021b28a3d13e82814ed89bac3e034dc07e36220e2