Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba8c97984411a491…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 11:00:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 25a00b824d5c767fbf1f94c0cbbbfbd7 SHA-1: e6f6bb08161d2c7e0ca9b4ec4a9ae488d482ecfa SHA-256: ba8c97984411a491beac6ed97ce8d3922d45e88a5d69c2e4af5b7aa5681039c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=idm+plus+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a5c8d09dd4198d6536808859e407777/sideferosekofuderil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarissoft.com/img/userfiles/files/gitaxanilinuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morard-mcf.fr/data/Files/fopowudaguxoxonelolixiras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cattaneoarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/givuwavoposemafazut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427261074ee---pilufotitewanegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pillshop.ru/uimg/files/194808645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atccs3.it/atccs3/fckeditor/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sakaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemwishrs.com/ckfinder/stones/files/mepebaroru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/mologetevidusumebaduzaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/47634124914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onestep-tokyo.com/userfiles/file/63404387033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/16521501839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skisun.it/userfiles/files/13473285385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofcourselc.com/admin/uploadsfile/tegasatevalotewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemingdecal.com/uploads/assets/file/95680494214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fangjin.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49611583206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc770efb675736b21a406a90f1911e95/setojopovidolopiwokodubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiangsutravel.kr/userfiles/files/20210903_041458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/nefakogedikewaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishiosatu.com/contents/files/59194184935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904230526304219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/tevevixizur.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_off0000e05c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE05C 20080 bytes
SHA-256: 915245346c9372ddf315e3744c527a0c8ce61a6470b8c95f64de2a06acaf0133
font_01_sfnt_off00011543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11543 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D5A 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 2e7735b143c73b065173bbf32216d09f285e36090982e24b0ea3ed4d7befc826