Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bba69ae1033cd10b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-07-13 07:55:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 27aa2012b3906705ac7c10d8a6c1e002 SHA-1: c7f1136ee523af68050087443af8fbfbffaa33c2 SHA-256: bba69ae1033cd10bb5ea68dc7a538da7c7a46ef689e0179cb83409c377cd861c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://crocepadrekolbe.it/userfiles/files/1323830971.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dakmoto.cz/obrazky/file/64041967621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed2f1227b236c90c791d8059c574df48/jedakok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872c846817e---92816271326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/nurez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hol35g33ha73b74ua98t5rjqu7/wijagag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xistenze.com/files/files/gulurasetin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607886a01c295---3358584077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rl0bsht35kr65r6jf4k7jvrqn/59455227621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e9389c89c---11061921094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflocops.net/clients/81266/File/vufox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed6de69b812a2a4b1602ce57c65708f6/pakejoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dd5e8e459ecba040582afd0043ecd16/wolenelupejigejuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedfightalliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ximajukelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mvmn9farr04cuj5q6210brj11t/disatuwozudafinemag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77c668a1080af434af5e681de2d100ef/zirubemidufuvirumene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/66024843511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f8571aad3---kepeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oksushidelivery.cl/sitio/public/files/file/15443785044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070523ae0b6d---nexapizujamew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ade2ca795---77143844611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/nidowovefedoxekaserino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=animal+desexing+clinicPDF 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_off0000dac9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC9 16860 bytes
SHA-256: d830af3c807c5f0b346caef7f48e14d7b33ea0ae4a15b64f00c3dc0afb8303c8
font_01_sfnt_off00010698.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10698 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011eaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EAF 10480 bytes
SHA-256: cb887495596b289c2fa2f8404ee67c305c54080e2cc73462d106682a2ebe5159