Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba7ebb8b79473be5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:02:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 78ba6e11e8e90c9a55cb1cf2ed632273 SHA-1: a31e9fbb13ec83fb9980d5d63a3fb33f32e07488 SHA-256: ba7ebb8b79473be5bcad62f2b633d20c75aae6305a0fa972f02275317769607f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, some pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=experience+certificate+word+file PDF link annotation
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/81275137083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/dirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.pl/userfiles/file/jiviberironamufuzezado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/wogakajediraziredinebafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungvrvklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dagidironefofewexufumaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/meledusenotakesumezaxasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a43e7a64df---30814160482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd1bd00b89810209cda9bb91cdd9ede0/tixerobegapigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d839ed8627cc06cc6dff7618024482c/79188159159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/64734873312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/dogilasane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/lupujidikesexetireku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/3387073029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/75283868461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/741f9ac46379703273fd9727a10c8194/2332627393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kevinmcallisterlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sulitorizofogumasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074cbf1537da---24105817818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec56af1e15---5415864682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076672197f95---lagimorowiwevapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff44311299---mupezopofaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c990a233ab6---lofowaxajamegepaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/94526017969.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_off0000ebb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB0 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 7df9d70c961b729608bc8eb82011c2fed841428f618df0e20c8544ff6573cbfd
font_01_sfnt_off00011aea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13301 10616 bytes
SHA-256: f6d715f0c5ec1df9bf392863e5a99b76266717198cd2314c0f38c6ee91261ea7