Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bba485d9967f5e06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-08-03 19:24:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6021171bf7c179d44c6ce0e453821a9d SHA-1: 906c4e464c8d6b20ddd5ec2aafda67b5f624b0b2 SHA-256: bba485d9967f5e060fbbcde92740801926af901bfd5a132fdf817e05cc1b1358
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://apisicul.com/userfiles/files/79390925533.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40f1e0fca462d178bff1d6ce2484a408/95799316760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdb3a2ef3d719940d21b2074d678263b/8589665781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumnerclassof1976.com/clients/4/49/49b54eafcc86ae0c30eb104ab8b91c7c/File/rolab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa53d99d590---dudimikeguro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806d34a7c4a---jixijodafik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/94872473734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tselectromechanical.com/uploads/CKfiles/files/vopesibisabemupalopix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panda-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/85052417051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c54eed3ff42de92b871ed35998bee86/raniwupugipevesojifagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wchs67.com/clients/f/fd/fd50fd9748f3592dabdfdad26f378f15/File/kovevogosediwonugufosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a3f941d61e2c37eff92c49d8459b7d3/15227343424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakirkoytemsilcisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5379f00d5---3088429862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.passion-rnd.com/upfile/files/2021/07/25/tazexatowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f91425767feccdd90ccca70cf8eaf94/28569729140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a61479f96d9b38cb3eaa2bbdb101a2c9/7078483493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fea91cd358---26554376750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/va9d8n6eq98dpgm5flg5l165k1/6686737125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecc2bf88782c69d83b74f7051db40400/fobibutexuvamijapamapuwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070062ce857d---59137095252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecae36595297f9164527addc92fc1958/xupunazuwiwudoxirusaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/lamakepinatizidetog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a6902e54d1412ed34b58c59e79f9aa7/83273624154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=is+varicella+zoster+curablePDF link annotation
    • https://medlineplus.gov/shingles.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001088d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088D 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 1a495635c8b88c4c35494bc09fb48634a2dfb4386ff471b933e3e3439b73a0c6
font_01_sfnt_off00012073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12073 18596 bytes
SHA-256: 4c8bccf248b1ee95c5f67348737e707aeede0d56cab6a1acf8a257741cfd0964
font_02_sfnt_off00014feb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1