Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba9b9ae680150d6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:48:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: bbaabd8d1f675372251e8d4db2ad9424 SHA-1: 3041e32965b668f66d85a8633ae88ad050dd03d7 SHA-256: ba9b9ae680150d6f4bbbd8c12a9a772a6754c9603bf7479baf8cba019e9cf11b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. This structure strongly suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://wsbtitan.com/images/file/retigaxutedotikubalakoxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mamadona.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapatelemofugufewaxeson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608481356c899---gedadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dadf678863e---53655856600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c875ab0f1e1b7063b881e34a0b1d807/47979157106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sprinter-lab.ru/content/File/59405677197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petrovsky14.ru/docs/files/nibojifeloju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f8a078889d---pimutiwixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/93331127846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0ebe2b4416---vezobolitewedupekarul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b425bf89408---52788136127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanaf.ru/userfiles/files/6466699086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/120e18d61e01db104501d2128149158d/80040684660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71535565520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/xesafabikavakumopalovaban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/037713ba35a59480aa378ff70bc66d25/megewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocvn.com/userfiles/image/file/ribejakaladulixeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5149ad51653746cfe37d76a2c810113a/30644019273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegnasrl.com/userfiles/files/21320974447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609278ad96a8d---11093358249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/padazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/64540150816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ae46c95b6---jununegapetorubure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbea2e3e25---libave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2-view.org/home/view/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30984967184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=anamnesis+odontologica+pdfPDF 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_off00012f3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F3F 19712 bytes
SHA-256: e56bff9cb5e8418a2ef70319a5f89bd7fd8b3159f9944977776f4d43efa48ae8
font_01_sfnt_off000162be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162BE 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 2a61ea8b8dd5431e99b8b8402d4a0ed747446916b046f8fbb75891ff94c3a9f3
font_02_sfnt_off00017b96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17B96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1