Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0880ea00067d8ee2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-08-07 09:42:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bfc66eb72b1a6f9cd2ccc0cc8117ffda SHA-1: 9c25ec4c8c7464255132c427c80124d1b8a49947 SHA-256: 0880ea00067d8ee2e218efccfb1d2c0eef1e5f61ee3c23fcb3db5c54535fef11
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the attack pattern of luring users to download malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05618b045db7e854ba94070c4de7e051/likawadeloba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f93f523c42b---23111577464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1610baf81e4cf6---5335237660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da9ae0a26d7---nasugijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1yunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25834358373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01a408d952cd159f71395a23ac61bebb/foxosabafuvudumokobafasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/50258622786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/29361682770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bendhigh1970.com/clients/1/10/106e6567aa8bd3cecf4080670b11bd10/File/30939085677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d46a51f810---fusibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6tkc4vfdr1vjkretmj8fs36k1/97964373098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c315d7096---gavisinawitizevemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610026fb0fade---68927742395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/foziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ml8b47cmo7tgabig8jih7bfdlj/wijeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860b70004b9---jidarinomoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/bedekovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/69661200952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdc.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sedivobamezixedilekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duperobefakonetezibizunot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bc2353a1a---54470034932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e923cebac6---rodunuxapulaxizemidebelek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9kud0c2gala8q3emil6vc2elgr/kabakusulixoxuzud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieukhactransam.com/uploads/files/buguzefabesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/kogebisovulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9014e26362---52871214925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6o5c7n6ts984epi8ms6moult65/gozegipebigodekezufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=naal+marathi+full+movie+free+download+mp4PDF 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_off0000efbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFBC 17116 bytes
SHA-256: d7dda2af277a3d279d48a17503af5386e9035b6e910212fec44405a2499fb9be
font_01_sfnt_off00011cdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CDC 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 89a10b7cc0fe4f64326aa095d84b3bec97c7375d42da3e2f14b8f86a6083512a
font_02_sfnt_off000135f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1