Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba62d7505ea1cd7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:44:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c91dad7e832084554b9afca23efb6e90 SHA-1: ab847addd4abbf9314e18269de7869271bd79290 SHA-256: ba62d7505ea1cd7bf1d7619e9f909d1990fd7d8084c326274444288694042f75
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/62102342200.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be9ae96ec6b---2248593374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/51393381599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06ba0023949cc22ed49c49b0fb66a1ac/81373287974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/rujejazevefesulifavatekev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f765d05e0e---tokotululupafutusisagumoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asappl1ljm7eegfik9g71ensq2/14570056122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53bec112ebd03951c53f493e9f8a0b81/46321350892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fulzugaskozpont.hu/files/luminipitewewupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d17041c983---60577328905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4234f63af26f314690fefb0b0ef67623/98560010948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mweb.cz/images/file/dovawivojasorenosubifowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608264fb867ad---58610988837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/91976144398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mabifitness.it/userfiles/files/tepojofafevovebopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f55602d6208b93f9032574dc0e566c9/falatato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ub5pshjum5sellregcqtvqruj8/43531477407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whewfamily.com/clients/12004/File/11864493773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f893ae8f281340f785dab1f8aa52bf06/xukelobefiwenoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvarenda.ru/upload/file/35241492173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba9c256ab47---44422052691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meadescafe.com/userfiles/file/labaniwukokibefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161239c382393c---69934715835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/21767263982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawfirm.vn/MINH/user_files/file/85183633136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=hot+texts+to+send+him+in+the+morningPDF 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_off0000c7de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7DE 20584 bytes
SHA-256: 4ef198535d77a91b01a7a549ee0be620fcfc48c4453fcda6a7624380466bb4ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCDD 10580 bytes
SHA-256: d7943b9ebaa6397f5417ca19e47474a6df0ef1f4b8ef95487ab02c3507e011b7
font_02_sfnt_off00011490.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11490 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1