Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba85837d87b5c8b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-24 04:49:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fa327e5d9b1c1ba34537126bcc1c17ca SHA-1: 29374db0db07330931065fef45be6d854b910e86 SHA-256: ba85837d87b5c8b3b4afff4ad1eede941fa83a98d35c15c0c54f601e9fb09a0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded URLs are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+media+player+file+formats PDF link annotation
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/2854054429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27d3dc96a1a9d7d85ac80a2cb27b3018/fagunaseba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/154971910f377f16819be75a2bf24725/34988525381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rallstarawards.us/nbloom/fckuploads/file/93954629282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torgoborud.org/images/file/wubetekagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinton.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/xiluwubonuvavixatibozav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/72762968980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeharringtonhomes.com/userfiles/file/bepiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classtool.info/upload/files/85682844048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d26ebff7a7f6120b07c4753e77698323/godudexozovizoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/93356375075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/42192743340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210924101325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://underbutter.cz/download/foto/37854670812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cli-kh.com/uploads/files/202109240943169523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/43163480379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d4eda9eae9---82028001857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/waxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161443004443a3---35670787427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poulinstrapscan.com/userfiles/file/63652524802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letnipohar.cz/upload/file/20458420142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethnicminorities.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/4753734945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quartierdete.fr/uploads/fckeditor/file/77698483353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c88b233826---18510023649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamlaocai.vn/webroot/img/files/8777654714.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_off0000d651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD651 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE68 10752 bytes
SHA-256: ffdf9626bab9698dd1e91afac6c50c1dae9c31e8aa619211f9889c5641e14ccf
font_02_sfnt_off0001071e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071E 17336 bytes
SHA-256: f0911901f707e1f64d352eee1138adf7b368529bc04f7f7f25a4db02ee421473