Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bab6e42cabf43cad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-04 17:28:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6bb76a492d21f2c3762b82eec6db867e SHA-1: 760c8c16df669a89384ec41223ef8522ae27c682 SHA-256: bab6e42cabf43cad1f7bf1e48cce7100d6b9be2c6b612cc6977ad3a0cb4c4d57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of external URIs suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/radenural.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5iq1oek2n5l1bf950snl4lecp/jabonudaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5bacba4a0---96053428023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ituqamqgrffnrstfvka5uku8hs/jinorikixenasakitexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/29750301203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1d25pnns8f03rtqqspmrtigk1/jukiwigeragedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5018311a371af9570977b42f54275cd1/razeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velocimapper.com//webfiles/file/13357302224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d70b16ab7---gezaxutanirimasamaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608722bb9f839---fuvugepapepumoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/2413110913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/xodewegine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/fekeribuwebudaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehideawayresortpattaya.com/userfiles/files/68457902785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/bejasefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/093c83705d67c21ee88bbff11019fc5c/fopegadamosapalakuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/450fd3062bf2eaf92057f5042941e678/10606922096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093aa6ebb892---23170100133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e9d7a1592b---9672196309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c4b380fb3d6810fe7cf8acf1e990266/kawovafukusazuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/28399132982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleschimmo.lu/userfiles/files/posesovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/datunorobalisuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/1395554566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/61370873888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=old+chandamama+stories+in+teluguPDF 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_off0000fa93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000112aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112AA 10944 bytes
SHA-256: ce70d1020aae60c4f4bbfdeda20312c6629f07170be7bae033be94c5c5b0551c
font_02_sfnt_off00012b9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B9A 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 3031139bfb5c7504f61d706bededd8156912820fc1a85cd544dea98bb5bdd0c9