Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba7c89aaeb470549…

MALICIOUS

PDF

195.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 03:07:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ba038676f373f7cec8efba3d7025a241 SHA-1: 8f1b41156490fa6d34788228793d89a931f1c5f4 SHA-256: ba7c89aaeb4705498960b9c3e9629fae9cc7df4a105d343c455c7f7a166ae824
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains multiple links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms and appear to be part of a link farm. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a high ML classifier score indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristics suggest a lure for downloading files, likely to deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9895

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://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1465ee0a6f25f503a478b76a5bcf49c5/24948279658.pdf
    • http://lowchens.org/userfiles/file/34019168426.pdf
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/puniduwesewakafagan.pdf
    • https://itacademyindia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gebilikuvoxewexebiv.pdf
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc598760ce2e10f9ef8c686a13d36899/60248888872.pdf
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8676b81717a7a82751b28ab2e37ae44a/vulesajotiro.pdf
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/59592210132.pdf
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/39096612251.pdf
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/43482107734.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b222dd0a3---89728737672.pdf
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/85972546930.pdf
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608752674a3e5---23863952704.pdf
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fimo06eg4m9bt3sg4b1ggnii2/titaga.pdf
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d344f00d4f7---dirasax.pdf
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd5528b505181d13b093330782f70c7f/tibotalenisaguxip.pdf
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24ba598cad---38916185044.pdf
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb60f82b5a4---23983201600.pdf
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608734e847255---14905331962.pdf
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1be2653a39---mulefodigob.pdf
    • http://lynhuagiasi.com/Images_upload/files/gubolirizawixures.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=download+minecraft+pe+for+pc+full+version+free+offline
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0002745e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2745E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00028c75.bin
00ca289c0588693a55312090b61f76e681bb9d54266eb26c21919293f435c915
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28C75 11036 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0002a622.bin
7ccfed3f12b206c7ec0c3e1e311a6e071c97c63bcdc9a3e45123f8e9ffdbf279
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2A622 21708 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0002ddde.bin
97db07c38f9c6fd44afc6a0f64b1012090794cb8449aa31cc7a307edde00e69c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2DDDE 9512 bytes