Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba526ea9f4044225…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:02:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0f0bfd4a615e91d304af34cc586fa41c SHA-1: c9d479315c6f09619036f61ca1ad8cac68e5510d SHA-256: ba526ea9f40442253bb29cef3314f12786e4ddbd383a1ba815193a777d726666
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+engineering+economics+third+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80488083882ce614b3134ff9afd833b2/fexurawatixilejadaledupop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harlit.com/upfiles/file/wejadejusakujazopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/81859308608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73507affba---36965097781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e09d403694---38720676942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/47909370986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/kudazetemubitite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6h4pus8549k0bj2hrs7qe64chs/dugeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711bb8c3db4---73027720014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceroki.com/image/files/zoxixezovazasuzapoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazionche.com/files/wulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daisytalavera.com/userfiles/files/33189508296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/595f8ba8c0aaeddf779037da091dd85f/kadusakagotejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/26901577755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhigh65.com/clients/4970/File/15175139234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/215c4e80c7a449ecb72b72be63169558/25774951510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umiyawoodworks.com/fckdb/userfiles/file/64463255031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/16409007453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/parodifajonamukex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5951c32db---muwala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/mefosesutabiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djlrt21cjvenclocdgbss5g9i1/33553033163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urdu-hadith.com/survey/userfiles/files/zemivisexaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f77e51d1943c17df22ebba900e266a39/bofabazexunusomute.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_off0000db43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB43 17280 bytes
SHA-256: 71fa8d52e8ccc397d6d527be16a5a6ec15f846e035f18678419a8b243eef87a4
font_01_sfnt_off0001082b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1082B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012042.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12042 11144 bytes
SHA-256: b33771c4907f89c30b53f628d7371aecd33da62f0e1b077e599933a79b1d4ec4