Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baa94ea9cd928872…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-07-19 04:26:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 765aae8f7f9be3d00712646254ca8022 SHA-1: e656ee1c5a6b1afd90c045a17e74e0c839a5e249 SHA-256: baa94ea9cd9288720d195da08f6ed4c816de64f18af740a2b098758a597a273c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the link farm behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://fitviewer.de/files/file/18663833929.pdf
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/2453902727.pdf
    • http://lsneotek.com/ckupload/files/188812666.pdf
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/powenedevimoxubotodumuwe.pdf
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805ac8729db---vexogadofatazuwe.pdf
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5350452d278878caf399417ae5ba1629/60840504839.pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764ac92aa07---92345255871.pdf
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8lud4f74bg9ns89nnhmie87l4/jivazudazanite.pdf
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8e65d93d43---tedixomogavipol.pdf
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/ruginokogaripapimebuduvoz.pdf
    • http://csc0731.com/userfiles/file/20210629165144_xe3gg0.pdf
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da0432f2a51ca8bf7a1241f5173924b4/99914765577.pdf
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/xeruxegelozo.pdf
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/54947606688.pdf
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/97143563904.pdf
    • http://hondaotohaiphong.vn/upload/files/84963363761.pdf
    • https://samtee.com/admin/images/file/zuzamozomemol.pdf
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09329971e12fc467d6413c827e48889a/todigavovimaw.pdf
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ml91q4iq5ttlic1er2a2i1mfg5/85947159263.pdf
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f95738bd97e6eee49b278bf6c8fac35/8984462947.pdf
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/zunafokujexutosov.pdf
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n40rphs8hlsglclisohui7cq8h/fowamibet.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=a+modal+class+in+a+histogram+is+the+class+that+includes
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001095d.bin
a4401d0c9ea632767f96b0c6650638987bf335d9d21b1a0564e960151f0f7a64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1095D 17528 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001377c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1377C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014f93.bin
3ba82e3251e066392da608e9db30e170048625623ecbe5385eeb02beb79655dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F93 10900 bytes