Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba67ee7bd10bc2f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-08-14 23:37:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 026865654ab7dd92b7b32cb78fa571e1 SHA-1: c4efcdea69f47db7ea6e6b78b52faa2427724ecf SHA-256: ba67ee7bd10bc2f1b6a298a741dc4a9026c0411503c9d24461242c4b4621c18c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to trick users into visiting these sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=examen+de+lainitas+quinto+grado+primer+trimestre PDF link annotation
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/kasorelezopire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homecareangels.ca/files/files/files/vobub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/xebufakomumigoviruxifiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/63850859804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf1aee5dd1d---2895363244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e949c6815634d9316e97d6dde113e45b/19402233460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.romanschatztruhe.de/img/files/92930758754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609832b8ae44f---22017500619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0be0f70fcc69f797a6463a3e28f0154/wegiwabiluxaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943f72bef25---bulobuvexed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/letabalapirilusinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1f930049e6---valabukopitudawipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ld7e7187fobrj92bvltmn1si1/posejifadiwirirorawafafen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/xebavujudibirutizusujipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b37a9umu62609j21ammcte7bo/36193359885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c23d415f118bcbbc56dbbcc59a0981d0/17218295115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/86970134076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/95064318266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f286bcf91---noparujaxuxewedigar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f48a0e0b03---51822971518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/36677909331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3daaf695764cd37d12d4e39fb2d8fb0f/35005563755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078809a29126---75805977055.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE45 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 4516b8424d1adc0d5c6e01c86ed49de4f224423865031afcf71c9e436934a8f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF772 19084 bytes
SHA-256: 5ee78930caa49708261c3807cf55ed61f43d9116b427ea1c6796e0d19c7a4df2
font_02_sfnt_off00012859.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12859 16488 bytes
SHA-256: d0e02ea597b059e12c640018e4c0b859d2fbe31b167f59dc9fd0dc6423c65742
font_03_sfnt_off00013f45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1