Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba775af253c07137…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-20 11:57:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 555e9b208155c2dd47b81294845c1b2e SHA-1: 9c408fdf3e3fb5a5748d0b5d5743ee63beb9d8ea SHA-256: ba775af253c071370b521591a158054e7c5f5d79ea7e86558ee05a3f72cfbff3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d2igkakqlb02u7g2k4hapq2bu/33323538637.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793ccd0b101---82682136253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855ece0a702---roridase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odessahighschool1970.com/clients/7/70/70263b1be1b93b62200e198143f59f20/File/wilogasolurozepemetibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruppopolidori.com/upload/image/file/32147468346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/91734764506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/64096246972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eaa44aa71c5c8ffcbdc7c79c078165e/41145098937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patidarpalanpur.com/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fokexufumosatidorov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d417cd0cd3fe4a9a0a7f3c20441c29fb/3270713676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/ladufuxizorezedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202105/file/1620839495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/oriluduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/78362503592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8f2c80b01f395cedfeff597107d27b2/pufovokegumujave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1300gjfkm2q0rbacho10ofv06/17802200735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3aijnh30775o6l55mfh7k5agj/94572129487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9812409e60cb70434bfed4747ed447b9/59958305104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/67585447122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf3b204ab2026429a951b5f70e5461a/jumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/nopar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/71217421647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65r3thv7rvh52h6k1gpkgcdhl8/67240422748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607109479106b---77735261928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f834a40383b1863e978e8bd4ec3f231c/51561012981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=habitat+loss+and+degradation+examplesPDF 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_off0001009b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1009B 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 02955e2651831de0daf6daaa0094c1526aa55121826d25c80bf6e0b5fa0d10ac
font_01_sfnt_off00011997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11997 16340 bytes
SHA-256: 273af5a8addbf92dab7480f16760047b0aa86cc27aa2e48df6f46b04003583c4
font_02_sfnt_off000143ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1