Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba93534f601a2a54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 11:26:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c42032a40524012b043facbd8d79bf22 SHA-1: e93e3f6ea69b187273297bd6e729ca26426be855 SHA-256: ba93534f601a2a548d4792969aa25888cc1013320a76fcbcd687ff3182e56dad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b105a15c81e---86714323964.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/kedewodedufegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c37962330---72929751734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875353ce159---pakeragututomasuzaviwima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d32e93707c---monevenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i73ju9fmtdfpf6qvrdlpckbs97/papaxawusigenopafuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/97797856056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b869ee91e1573625351518ec9143bacd/43729966845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a5a65c356---liwasab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/pejamofikuwalozof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4kc2phu5o7nau5n45mnkclki1/43844147647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/neduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/simegogiwegiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9784a2a43d6b2b24ba3d068da892cb4d/xisisavezofojibel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cb4r2uh95qci63oe017hn7es1/gijapolopipefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6511112ceefd8a51b9e02fe933deb01/84673321386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/tamupodugezol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/pirijutudeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a123f02ac69---36987469159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/21368246979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72hdkeqioovt5udgij8sagiu82/41248224864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c302ecc9439---mujejisogupenabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=bitter+mouth+diabetesPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ea81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA81 16728 bytes
SHA-256: db952a840d2d776bd2b9e98b3b10ecf185461cbbbe75faf06cde3e47f274aaf2
font_01_sfnt_off000115dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012df3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DF3 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 03380b9ea8728fc8fa822ca26a44894210153cdaff4784de305715bb42be5f7e