Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba813e1f75a5f3db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:30:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 41fd7bc3ac654aeceb8b7f9f80b5773a SHA-1: 44d86146dd1c6e2d43fb79d233f7ad2274014548 SHA-256: ba813e1f75a5f3db83b9af1a51fb8564850f3be676404303ab42f3a80a8c0d7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports the attack pattern of redirecting users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is leveraged for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/7572560525.pdf
    • https://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kazipunepigiwonobo.pdf
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/39923409197.pdf
    • http://valdhans.cz/userfiles/file/45143530945.pdf
    • http://rejs2013.cycling-recycling.eu/imgturysta/files/11299710436.pdf
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/nosomututozekidumukexug.pdf
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6sgp92d915ejplhgsur4ijo0e5/wafunovugi.pdf
    • http://alrehabourhome.com/userfiles/files/10911996128.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742497cef29---86380378418.pdf
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/ranupolun.pdf
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c120b1c55b7---2613913259.pdf
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49f7kardut7dh8g31bkrnj3j5d/31105019626.pdf
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c888e72bd04---dalemokifedunogagupadix.pdf
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecaadb4d5d3---bozip.pdf
    • http://lateonsettay-sachs.org/userfiles/file/48885759055.pdf
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/10095590603.pdf
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763e6e2da56---13217499735.pdf
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/silg36eb75m01i1pm39vi0k570/rivuwozeri.pdf
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/nubulaxuwodakosatikijexo.pdf
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ebf4c4a0a16e20a4311e930abbf20a5/43918801815.pdf
    • http://rkmaster.ru/uploads/files/8433860059.pdf
    • https://xn--faade-mtal-p6a3a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67269003794.pdf
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6b2d8213893d5c59b753f8837d1c58/4639631961.pdf
    • http://yer-krasnodar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95837391952.pdf
    • https://mayphotocopydogia.com/upload/files/titosabazirenedu.pdf
    • http://whuntex.ru/userfiles/file/22182404730.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=repeated+addition+arrays+worksheets+pdf
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c35f.bin
ba66fb215ae225e511eb478ad3cf9724b4375c18e66cd0316ee996fa7b57002d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC35F 10888 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc96.bin
8c3a4da2e14bbabf1c9460d819a353ec2786285abe07c59d13c30112f490e643
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC96 18008 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010af9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF9 16792 bytes