Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba492f1fbb9c2f0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 10:15:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: e2c4f623fbf113c3c04c3557f552c0a5 SHA-1: 08d8811700fdbf294321e8089a3455edfc40628d SHA-256: ba492f1fbb9c2f0f56dc2e1fa773fd685d9bb3ac8ef1e6592abdcdb17dd612fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/21101524506.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d0ac4ab4e---56961620871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/77744581913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/50708337263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/sipido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d40b5d24f0---kisasalejerixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc9f408fd1---85666722072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e57a3548a378ef19df10dc62261db363/22735891249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tl6s8h5773u9o15953pgl5tnct/91861274741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/87806421563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f25d468490---xinefoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f0ab19cac9b78b74a80e129ec652085/netigotaratinezikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/54458009231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a017155143becc3051f2a2427e9fed8/83423395396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0047ebf846---kajejijuxuzawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auapp.ch/userfiles/files/1738756036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d7f6718addcbcaba22286045afc9a2f/varokerovegofemupawaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6tbec72idbveanvap13hp23ok6/xenujaseguzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/51719831553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55a53ad216---78533992151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854d667e913---34275399803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///87928589270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607215b4e1e6d---jogizefaxusere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/gawebato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8511d82b14---jurug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=lol+doll+gingerbread+housePDF 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_off0000f746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF746 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F58 17948 bytes
SHA-256: a62d2e62f62834644353fec1a4796c257a359d61b70bb1b10beb2bc3eeacb15e
font_02_sfnt_off00013d9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D9D 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 520cafdeb4b8a96ec15afa4ceb3b690d53a2dd09c6a70b04e68edc14886d089c