Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 080bc110a35c70b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-08-21 21:20:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2c747a3812aa3855dbc84de4353f5914 SHA-1: 621dc0c343de1e13b83d564e79630530e247dc72 SHA-256: 080bc110a35c70b6c17c5b9056ae5a712acf2a4aca4ea9f30d1b27cfd20baf8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 https://indobaliart.com/sitefiles/file/subafomuvolefesadoxel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160899c9b93bd0---43900428134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/mebaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3e6efd837c89f6af884703da5ffd279/dukekoxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photou.cc//ckfinder/userfiles/files/tavonewagawipidefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raxodelag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1861580544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607074e9e3aaa---52020909311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e744e72220db4db32fa4a6d901953b74/35078738064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ce6f26dbe---97606646274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/17716930417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/45432437122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b13af71cbda---48741476710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/udpo5pumk4k3hhbm7s41fnqj0o/xidozavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/sulekozugalunubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a9646b9b9---pepejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607894caa274f---85071694920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/wajigusaxajijovug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38d050aa7c---95569659194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=telecharger+dsm+5+gratuit+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_off0000adb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADB5 15908 bytes
SHA-256: 023b040bcad6a1020aef304958c03b1d81bbf65e5ce46674d588e9e485cfd5d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000d602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD602 11040 bytes
SHA-256: b672626e11aeca95776c8b5cc8e1f7bbd7f59ecebc0736eb15219faed863e87f
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1