Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba7b37490ebba565…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-05-29 10:18:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 00f904215bdebdfbbb2eccb40b490c4d SHA-1: 16b867ef2eea49033fddb64c549d0d252b88f086 SHA-256: ba7b37490ebba5654306727422d31b97eb585c435c6f7278659d2c82f7690519
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with multiple heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. The PDF contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=microeconomics+theory+and+applications+dwivedi+pdf
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606df33bb1f14---kikato.pdf
    • https://agenciaboom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h96o6j44g0ia5ci24v0a0f7mc1/3290714450.pdf
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f6cd4a8f2---43313383400.pdf
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607517341a2ed---41182039010.pdf
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0c216d5e940659b8af0cec4975477e1/pasoda.pdf
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gr61r3vgrijb367b14ffmev423/35106209942.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd223245ec---58696656241.pdf
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dddf279d8989be31bd1a25170c347f9/josiwobofidod.pdf
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25adefcc63838d44c4b1461283122098/6869230575.pdf
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889a0acee89---ginerigoviwajarilo.pdf
    • https://gea99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/negodosipoxixexedegov.pdf
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/205a0fc6430611556b61836f20aa7c99/lopurufexez.pdf
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nn4n5rb75rj7svgljbcmuc250/79771694836.pdf
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943b036368e---71712402635.pdf
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8362b4c4bb1528babbdd2c04c33bbd0b/3760569222.pdf
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c5ce49cda3a6a7c42c90308fdc8de67/71541644347.pdf
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/54304676747.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ddc1.bin
a90e021021e0785127d4e5301d09c193ba2fbf3e09327b15a894244d4811a01d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC1 5652 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0fa.bin
c4d647ce135a450d12252ff955d8fd7831e3548c1ea8ee1ec2f1d6854aca4799
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0FA 11200 bytes