Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba79254934f2658b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-06-10 09:30:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 940fd1bae8dae5bed643e15da2ba9a45 SHA-1: d1ef81352c519e33558171b771a2d7491f756212 SHA-256: ba79254934f2658b4abf43ca031835cd794c589ff9bf542e539ab662ac2c0e6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'comparative superlative pdf' and 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating a potential lure for users seeking specific document types or tools.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comparative+superlative+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bfc6ca562---23654337750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a966b4a3156---97634002502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//89308313249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dad1249ff0---gagadobupugagube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/884512329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981f1b195a1---21148875440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/kowabuxoker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b16945f0a9---vipigojijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/11505081872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8e9eab834---zaworozusiluzebotib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/74476732920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/lomojezum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11394b743b---76947187171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/bajivujip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79604236e46ec5b3161a201aff01b84e/busesomumasajogonunafofep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000def0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF0 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 20db5a57fb7821faa9f96557ea4ae58e2c36eb0b6b7dba9b49f1896f8758a03f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f05d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05D 18712 bytes
SHA-256: a40eba3dc79ab76ec8a3b8b62f9e77b2b09cf23c9d7b68bc279ecc1aa2c9e8ed