Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba53408f9fab94ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-07-28 13:58:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 25d59a64f11ef9b2c25fbaa962aa37d9 SHA-1: 8378791e9e241064c7a3ca06eef86fc58bf4b00c SHA-256: ba53408f9fab94ba14cf9a9c5c2cd3b1a346b60feb7fbb564228d382b29a96c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate a likely intent to facilitate initial access through malicious links, aligning with spearphishing attachment tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://cppzone.ru/users//blogs/file/sidif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607792758c39f---71163922766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiken7050.com/clients/5/51/510ae66c864a6d23552e02d1b5190e2c/File/natanapol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/rutenel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmetrix.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64816358246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/gesemilebinegogeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c07c97174---zeninurufigadimanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/56368917342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickbox.ro/images/file/buremagabefexozejenijaxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e82784fe03ff982b049369dca8d8c1a/lokafaroforawigabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093eb4873ff9---woriviju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/548100404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e50e0e4fc38b0f9279a1618c6cb3f171/jisujimomuxilufulozoladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f8236869a---fuxupepejarajefupoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapalishakti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bixogumajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7ae0a47a12c848ff2d9e89ef2d9be6b/donabexisilizeraninopeton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/kivuburavoridovevotutegis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amgaa.org/temp//files/50726821185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af89767c9f2---38368362293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31e2ca5eae5e805954d0fbe810f55776/zugoporipisizivijupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4db8574d0---92121816657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d07bd29da2c---29837005490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmj63v29n3t9ui3d4qfrk2n44o/tiworemagulakafipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0+%D0%BF%D0%BE+%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5+4+%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81+1+%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BDPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c855e37071f---jalux.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_off0000f7c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C9 11136 bytes
SHA-256: a3fd54fff51b54e71c789f22641c2bfd9e14a5dee0dda7eeea45fd4f8935adff
font_01_sfnt_off0001119f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1119F 22388 bytes
SHA-256: 938504dbae69b322d09eb9c0d1217c7b681bcad3680c8834872e8f4ce9a9b0de
font_02_sfnt_off00014981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14981 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1