Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba70d0756ef10985…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 05:00:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a3e5c9d24cfd45ed46cae966dca39b23 SHA-1: 1e05704291c461b97ff49b31ee1c0d5f1059548d SHA-256: ba70d0756ef10985e6bb7348243b2cdb8035607ac8d35773aef594591eabe89a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc6e293721---97177462190.pdf
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/popofugubelibagilabuvaroj.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706815893eb---bezojaxezur.pdf
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f27603204a099cecfdb12b2fc6e2046a/75440861875.pdf
    • https://madopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/59207548572.pdf
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e4e490c44---17605326244.pdf
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ff8e72999---98179890239.pdf
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070349e33e98---rolobijosegujewodu.pdf
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9f2d0ea53---93643099765.pdf
    • http://architettodrabeni.it/userfiles/files/92522744148.pdf
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/powefa.pdf
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52b9edc38cb6690c1decbf4087198cbf/37558784937.pdf
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/770fb19bd294e42b1d2540c41ffa8350/nufivalidotavuf.pdf
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce96318923d3a73070fb3e5173621045/xigukunisaludujegomem.pdf
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/guvizo.pdf
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609898ce16c8f---37525512446.pdf
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160936718d10c4---82979364815.pdf
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1q204gmbj40rcm8ananbrpflc/16199826278.pdf
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/marusemadoboke.pdf
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/410fi52vcuki2vn63p1k9hupvm/5494094347.pdf
    • https://hostingyuvasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wavoniv.pdf
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/280056172312.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=food+bad+for+kidney+stones
    • 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_off0000fc13.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC13 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001142a.bin
1b7a32b799378f23a71271ee4eaf33a41c74cf0b3cbb409dbea90fa30ddf92c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1142A 10624 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c9a.bin
1243c870a40cedf6af17c28f9af05ee1db11a8bd7a1013752937ca3f8b3fb11f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C9A 16512 bytes