Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba4b7734dc0b58a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:42:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: af3502b459318f7dfa45d2bf2fea1918 SHA-1: 332041ba091510d86ee1ea1c68ca60921bac8ae5 SHA-256: ba4b7734dc0b58a459e4bcf71f2b3659afb27063fab8852661e94d0513197fa3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a 'Download Now' lure further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ninja+elite+idle+rpg+ios PDF link annotation
    • https://sieuthimaycafe.vn/uploads/file/kitela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werder-ritter.de/UserFiles/File/33958453701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prokoncept.hu/admin/blogfck/image/file/87229127721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nimis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novinfasteners.com/userfiles/file/gusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/28839131665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpquf0lga80hdrfljglfbpp9rm/33109175210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mihalex.by/files/files/pavefumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finadev-groupe.com/userfiles/file/38196614035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transbur.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19549206470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ng-sons.com/userfiles/file/31121643868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614071b936f5c---rofosetimawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/41717028768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neo-net.info/giganet/files/file/wazunut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1612f4e9a13b24---94582477616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaupureinternational.com/userfiles/file/32383772454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e80841dbf---32259483334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2ruoteexpo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13268821745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benly-carson.com/product/files/48943854865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/57797734474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/fesazaworew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/48826816334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d848.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD848 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f05a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05A 19244 bytes
SHA-256: 76ae9937c0247aff225564dcf92888363704fa98b676bb8c721cbf36c67cee54
font_02_sfnt_off00012268.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12268 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 5c9978d0efb302d1f8af5d0c69fe9f32aa81f828fc0daed20a34fd0e652e4553