Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba5ff8e4b51eb1ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 01:08:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3777d5953404cd2cbd754252224ccdac SHA-1: 28861478da58f7a215165af077c472f9a3aa843a SHA-256: ba5ff8e4b51eb1adad1f4c6a293d1576dfa4a1f420d50e5775887c0b3bcece64
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites utilizing the Formcraft plugin for file uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabd0ec86df---dakafexiwaxakoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce55ca62851---vezegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41d5c76c1b---26566611355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pga2eismderhh674bfnfu80nnr/didovivekaxidorasupubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af81aaa941f---wadokubatamitomadovif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cceb6b0d69---12164525117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/jepexemebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1757d282ed---54163635328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bb0899435---28866933129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/45974968477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c639c57b08f---nugugilopatimumeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/50569271485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/merovefanukuxesimareka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhomkinhtoanthang.com/media/file/36926913552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/18203405489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4747d40019---40995918823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/67903825135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/12204898816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805e475c35d---baxuvubebaderevaxopuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/dukexefilufuzukivisataf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1423774078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chikatere.com/Upload/files/1008627586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copelandreunionla.com/clients/6/66/66f6f3de7053633686652f51c4c00696/File/kaximubaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=two+quarts+equals+how+many+gallonsPDF 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_off0000c702.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC702 15892 bytes
SHA-256: edd2fc0688d0ccd8414026de0f7538af7b5759ac2fdad1b529275e137adb5e89
font_01_sfnt_off0000eff3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001080a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1080A 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 2919a97805e981d565990b82280b0486f8090a8b727fc892e2205865d5e773f4