Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bad6cabca85044d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 18:31:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ef3472610868b9dd71091c955fd9b482 SHA-1: c64549f7d2a761843ca89378da3f7703f05d2038 SHA-256: bad6cabca85044d55fbb3e56c9aad48ba2a094f689e5f90612e4ac3b0a539a49
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/19184925166.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pettwayfamilyreunion.com/clients/39389/File/zegewebujefenonurunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/27550992111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36ba2e6484ea1bcee7a211e88087ee8b/lipalejibisabiridedew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konferencii.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33261561618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligonfamilyreunion.org/clients/9/9a/9a44987365eba454cd9b2deda39aa7c0/File/60376743692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c9365d01a---fafejefizarupasuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/210629063324232370oaalairjozhi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a2381246a51e6a7c7a8cb25341bbf93/47437242046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a351a64b7d58d47510244b472ca5ffae/29029951312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1531a54ec754e064aedb4bb32227f420/balax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d84e3dbe4bab8d4a549fc9135978306b/47298976654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/kosazesuweburewido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bad5881acb7---vixuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/84910227361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609005203b883---12931944461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6af33e18b---xitegebagorimazuled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f85a628d0939c9d5893e62e02c35fe9/puwuwenexemoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75b7d1ce1ce886bff3382a29c57bf9f6/16788541965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b381a721188---4951109705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/vizovolepabipuwepiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/8603425137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=motivation+strategies+for+employees+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_off0000ef7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF7B 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 0aa0009775c8f6ba1810292228155559d991577dc438e534ea6c15e1c510fa8f
font_01_sfnt_off000108ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108ED 16804 bytes
SHA-256: 1f4192127da7b7fee44262f8f311a05d43cc6d0e9a30a6596b1f5a0218353f12
font_02_sfnt_off000134b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1