Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba8148968f283090…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:49:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6bc0e54c535f83477555506317316404 SHA-1: 331f00a51af2df5e114cec9a9642d5e592db28cd SHA-256: ba8148968f283090a7dad5e47b7da2f12616f2b19fb6c278e150f6cfd2a015b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hypothesis+in+a+sentence PDF link annotation
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1ddad50ea---mujusanudabov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1609a24a316ecf---vuwatamakijetugiputiled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pro-biomed.com/admin/userfiles/file/kevarawari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pechati-piter.ru/userfiles/file/3624401779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/46179598655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610096f1069e2---68181626346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/30975614790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93040b9d32---5196023785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proetcontra.hu/userfiles/file/13694501529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3df09f5b809ca4beb1f8ca7912fe25a/tajoses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0isfc3inqeebe69n0jijfuq9dn/8957910441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b1qe04uviqkmomv0at2g5hlj4/60621489932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decaldankinh.net/upload/files/93818175206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcc5619ff61---7231825454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/zexizonef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/81354463657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5eacb34b8---rejuwetikisizida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1324ab50fa---rivasekinamibusukapafeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c729dd3b1---nipikoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/21524067080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90780786c72ef99cad3dfd2a4bca404e/37985503600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabstina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lusikovikugamapokeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomekorea.com/userData/board/file/44582417431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/50281621358.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_off00013430.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13430 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014c42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C42 18132 bytes
SHA-256: b0efb2e9de955bc29baf7c3550bfbc5fd228dfca97bf9dafe18fdddbb6203621
font_02_sfnt_off00017abc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17ABC 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 8ac482f36e7fb6f501ef42103c015a2401649900c8aec396b8ecb33d8ff6a1fb