Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 080fd27bb0a04b0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-06-13 01:59:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: e3450125fcc06896de2c26f35ab92121 SHA-1: 002ba45dfbd7af061b87f280a12869215b3fd5b1 SHA-256: 080fd27bb0a04b0aa825cef8be2637c9c89f4637d4d73590b19895640e590703
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The file contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=solved+questions+of+journal+entries+with+ledger+and+trial+balance+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbe962c90d6a5bee74c545660d90507e/sanodikez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d039a9b45a---newejazexaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3c2c7acbc81e5f9a85a38238de89617/98991117251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65b45d0e5d3e7167abe2ee45478f0bfe/goxejitafulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://welltowork.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dab160805a6bea290be131fcc3cbc8e0/38016494202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cucthongke.vn/userfiles/file/%5C/reguniziva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/78047196065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/41881172506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d97320393c---pifojidugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fe623ebe2---bamobam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0i4sqfumh834234c5mqr6iiba/tolinep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/615df361008ac8adff44f78006977cc7/surenegogasowuxuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31710419574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//29458753495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6b66657a92---rejalenajanugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/jidinasodoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001093f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1093F 5896 bytes
SHA-256: 2e01427a21095d9a095f5560c9a4b1f743b24a919bc685e127e7cb142bf26095
font_01_sfnt_off00011d4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D4A 3720 bytes
SHA-256: 40ef96da86b6123d577d475be460de15c41b9ca7393a8e650be4e9942aa3c64b
font_02_sfnt_off000128ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128AC 11996 bytes
SHA-256: 0b5b930284fdbe0f7d620a556f7f970a1b2793967170fbf5b28d7931343e6618
font_03_sfnt_off00015179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15179 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71
font_04_sfnt_off00015f79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F79 8384 bytes
SHA-256: 24d105718c995f4903636d2e149c1347bc59bfb9a20d30026e2568ff0cd04f9e