Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba65bb1fb33d86c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-20 03:16:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8a03ca6ae23a497eecd57dcbfc84a651 SHA-1: 97450b5676ec8bdb6660f50a22fdc3b015612f29 SHA-256: ba65bb1fb33d86c96397a330442a7b634d5887111fce11990ed11a3c19fd6e58
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct textual clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/vavarafazawevifekuwelevok.pdf
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/39497473366.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-17/20210517104422191707.pdf
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f6bac3c74---mozusekegidusigaralonop.pdf
    • http://global-insurance-broker.de/downloads/43430760785.pdf
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e87787937---69831096818.pdf
    • https://area5srl.it/file/fibajokejirovulebeximavu.pdf
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/96706784073.pdf
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081708a409d2---32804522573.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160992e25f1aa9---ziwisi.pdf
    • https://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_52FEF178C20325A2.pdf
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48aef64283f8c6c1d9f22911422d8f1b/35763531232.pdf
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/vozevenodewiz.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jfvresdgbh2nehd6cc211d8hr3/84709128226.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5e5c22641---10632496233.pdf
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b70df78d8aaae75eb2a5bbbba5358ea1/75536600073.pdf
    • http://chieucoingason.vn/files/pipukidotefugukavomutone.pdf
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210509145349.pdf
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/16884840585.pdf
    • http://regmac.net/userfiles/files/47620657435.pdf
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e15c4d60d7d---87895384961.pdf
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa63c7f199---mujirujifinit.pdf
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/54842445321.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=full+out+movies
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000103d7.bin
64fe9f4079df9ac63f96e911f134a648751bec7db7d0086b2cfd25c5908f8fa7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D7 10048 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011a41.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A41 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013253.bin
b10f613d6b146dd1515c097a8f565ac723a39548346640cf52d0121850e1826a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13253 16560 bytes