Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba783324f0dc0888…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 01:55:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d6382a2ea1d31b5e2850e4d9cdadc88d SHA-1: cfc4c82d71dd8e2f3f89adcf20ea0c1b3a04a8cb SHA-256: ba783324f0dc0888aa68afe35b8c51b8a0633b7ec8da890cbb826445180d009d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. This structure suggests the document is designed to act as a link farm, potentially leading users to phishing pages or malware downloads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=usmle+step+2+ck+lecture+notes+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ee0aee0c6ec451600e8446fd6ac9ff6/lupezutimefixofonomavix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0ee51e21608c3235024074658b0defa/zakivaparolemozegoruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3faee3e59---buzimujofopal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/13560627883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812bfb2e7c3---lulipufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/wevajorozododinorafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/79943018742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/18896248001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahkay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36637792929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53aa22927f5b945b23c256e4b61d1d2d/xiliwemepamarox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.com/php/rs/filesupload/file/61202851494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/78430549988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841a90b8fb1---28750825202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foxixaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d863dc82fd---wobawajaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/94616575261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jctggdagt68b6u95kplm2j18e4/30679799798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836fa81dfe2---foxuravinejuvekerexifosij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/bafajepomexepazelus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5a4390ea4---fotekefaporimip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.info/contents//files/nobapupewasisuranip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210607040243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4a8e09c93---xupurowukexire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b81a451f7e786ee074b189bcd0c558f/luxinujijebadosus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3ded0e7df5---dudenuduk.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD69 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 76c1021abe878682d485f7ba5986e1fbf7060833f1b67094d6ffe3104b9f423d
font_01_sfnt_off000116e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E2 16720 bytes
SHA-256: c8bca099c1e042bea762f5ad8b4fdbc5f3c4472e97213a2f8083f4d0f42adfdc
font_02_sfnt_off000141f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1