Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e80013e05deba24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:46:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: af79132c775b0032f8421cb046509da4 SHA-1: ed25bc32044f93cbc3a1c9b3ff609c58476f8764 SHA-256: 3e80013e05deba2498646b0afe92d42355881e76f5ed3b87d9b46c02373775db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure itself likely contains embedded links or exploits to redirect users to these malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/nofegenomujagefodavor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5c722b6dbb55a1dcef864166086749c/91823590381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a1907ef89---11133934911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/torofotidipezivabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moriefrusca.com/userfiles/files/55391149918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e86f84352d3690faabfb2e7878690240/73728170642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608551d6a44f8---lapadiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d95ce6d0d1---59296695687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe96c43cc5---59418020341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/57795884776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yljx.cn/images/upload/File/86944456234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/66123227597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78894a95422ffac4a8823a6cbe6aaf7b/donawulekiledebenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607333092f97b---rodusakuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/63806849453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vgi-vn.vn/app/webroot/img/files/40519086202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/migexitofoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd99279abb---mijevexapezosaligibul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d769e01f7bf---57906278505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7m5j1mh4nkohuf5drh7bck9eaf/90453940584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42bea8ddeabd16f7cee52c9d15ce9a7e/19749285881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/35683791867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab6458bdc6---dutatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/38724610960c8d1ac9c566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=bollywood+full+hd+movie+download+1080p+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000f578.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF578 16704 bytes
SHA-256: c3291f1505dffb6c33515c8d09636ae83b5b83e876a8e451863dbce8a1b432eb
font_01_sfnt_off00012118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12118 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001392f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1392F 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 1837a5babbcc4d3707658d7046ce161a8d531571d8b9a06a17a59f9948ae1acc