Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 680cf15980cd0a83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 17:59:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c3d6e529fa667237fc16eb587a67a919 SHA-1: fd3bd42e285ac1b0ee8b7679ebd0de0b554e58fb SHA-256: 680cf15980cd0a83f44b85dce73efb0d64f9359b16f6a6bd005f77b92b6fb09f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories. The presence of numerous unknown URLs hosted on these compromised sites strongly suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56a6c3d062---82373148727.pdf
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dc544c8fb8f30a9cf7242e888a6a372/gades.pdf
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/figumikega.pdf
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7f61a50da---16900934129.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607595ca08cd5---bigobaxokuxamerisavupezad.pdf
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921eab5de30---tarumenopodu.pdf
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/13403489445.pdf
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/kaluwox.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b44733b135---wibikarixudosedawuw.pdf
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/gubejavurav.pdf
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d18ce45067c---30708959914.pdf
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a10f37154b7---susitubog.pdf
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/mizasezakevefalexajose.pdf
    • http://topas.lt/userfiles/file/30864905945.pdf
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/zukivisilazere.pdf
    • http://lambanghieuquangcaogiare.net/vietkiendo/upload/file/xugugefefugidovidazunida.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8c9dc0379739137335751ee368ce1a4/sosokorupegepikurezi.pdf
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/88147346376.pdf
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4341c725ce76464b361600678c021a24/veburemopojep.pdf
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d3356f664---kesado.pdf
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750b15daf20---76805901301.pdf
    • http://gw73patriots.com/clients/1/1e/1ed986c9d410becccfd9995a8318e329/File/15183464497.pdf
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ae181d366---79012772430.pdf
    • http://lso-msm.fr/userfiles/file/kobanojutiduvogase.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=spanish+answers+for+homework
    • 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_off0000dc49.bin
c9ae1ec5468099a90929509c0a4765cee8f9dabd23964ab80d22c1282c91e484
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC49 18372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010c0b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C0B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012422.bin
635d5c52918331850cf18f301763784ed130f3fcf4bfc9d06f9ed342a1bbeff5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12422 10732 bytes