Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 180f9d77fb8d7b7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:11:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b2dee916351126596cf8549ffab34e8a SHA-1: 775ee749f0c1fe10388797842efcfef798b892e9 SHA-256: 180f9d77fb8d7b7a66e4a1cb0f27f387df9ec98119136465d02b2ca76840a279
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links. The presence of compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to host malicious content on legitimate but compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://hijoin.hu/editor_up/92589687715.pdf
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/15772153066.pdf
    • http://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/41953764083.pdf
    • http://nato-denkmal.de/uploads/file/bobubaz.pdf
    • https://actionsporting.com/userfiles/files/66289642286.pdf
    • http://onroerendgoedindex.nl/images/uploads/25595419001.pdf
    • http://www.mmd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15315064758.pdf
    • https://www.luxboss.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/visunodusukem.pdf
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6196f19ed---vodebuja.pdf
    • https://organicfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/nulobaruwomisujad.pdf
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a4b82338c084c3e76d4385ef7627029/64730189454.pdf
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318d838c87a---lanubixo.pdf
    • http://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27169046245.pdf
    • http://www.instalacionescueto.com/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34130942263.pdf
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97714330916.pdf
    • http://kxqcgs.com/filespath/files/20210901225704.pdf
    • https://korzayithalat.com/spot/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/96444031989.pdf
    • http://xn--3bsx3iw22bmot.com/filespath/files/20210905070634.pdf
    • http://doanekeyes.com/userfiles/docs/nimutigegupekuvetetiva.pdf
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/bidolekuludujomifila.pdf
    • http://chandravanshi.com/userfiles/file/gowinilolukobiw.pdf
    • https://saleskerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/davupuzijexabobi.pdf
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/29222523649.pdf
    • https://www.gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gatepim.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=free+download+ringtones+for+samsung+galaxy+s3
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000122d1.bin
8c9c141cbb78d1fc8b2aff2e9208b4c23970e07a7d223a312865dedb899033fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D1 19500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001551b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1551B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016d32.bin
0096df6a0c01405d2ab2115e3c87fe51c8e15ba0cbb38e39fc2d209555b842f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16D32 11248 bytes