Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba962c8c75fceda6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 05:30:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9e6a208b78b252b041be0324bce34fc1 SHA-1: d18612437afa42b9d3fd15587b4728f06393e91e SHA-256: ba962c8c75fceda6b1c14f113958dcab3de33f10b5370d55f1edfa6e855fd2c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://paymentor.nl/uploads/file/87725721597.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/vitarugovulatanoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsbettingconsultants.net/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3754713855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upakuika.com/img/file/60793453146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produktybhp.pl/pliki_user/File/67461909150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.q-jin.ne.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toxemuretipugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wamivademini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://38e5bbdfe8be.gdziezjesc.info/userfiles/file/46396684940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/xabuzovewig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartament-krokus.pl/userfiles/file/32472199994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/882e639643367c54b8a846f924cc29af/33137573421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaycafe.vn/uploads/file/xefejaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocnepal.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18157751410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/18287987582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210908/210908155109213921zo2sl1fxfhgb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161365f3de12d9---77218364963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/30338703049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614134bb774d5---83706831497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ra7a7p-h3ba7.com/contents/files/31202529673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnwt.mgo.cool/upfile/files/2021/09/05/relezojowumerowaturika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homestationrealty.com/userfiles/files/23258746369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wujipacking.tw/upload/files/sakabirosoxoxapomomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/xesolidulefokexes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21cbf3ad837dc08ca90dccd4561dad0b/depiwasobujevirukevufunes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4s9i784ljc1ks2btukqr6pela3/suvenuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=update+android+via+adbPDF 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_off0000e6c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6C2 18600 bytes
SHA-256: 1aee249ec559c5911fbceea8318c026d3c230a5d24fe5b4d56e81440d370133b
font_01_sfnt_off000116c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012edb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EDB 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 11fcf5dedfb74ef0a359004da3b4ec0c553d7aaaac92d827503c1c53a496bb6c