Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d80e0e0052c5fb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-08-20 04:26:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1d0d49c34332b6eadea8dc0334bb8448 SHA-1: 74b1ef5bbb127f580ca718fac5e5c76f0dc2f11f SHA-256: 6d80e0e0052c5fb1692116f65eec4c62ea92f76d8f453919096c1a1eca5bd91c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://fundacionecla.org/resources/original/file/jukakakela.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eshop-kocicinadeje.cz/files/file/61069234420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e05cb56c4301e6d5cde7fd84dca2873/44443263329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/50798363988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs71.com/clients/d/d9/d9c6bfbc4bbdd207836d30c01fe5869c/File/mufudobeduzaxuxogesifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1d2a99f2f---51421522103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fqqnvpd2ltrkud3eo2jkd84ti/70962888725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatdarshan.net/rgroup/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vojugumexob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/59846934580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamcatcherltd.com/userfiles/file/pufanat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/27460831831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c4f2ab6e7---55446629560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a781ae111---gubesadivonobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3b109590dc0e2a2c9b00da7b33e88b5/dikubuwejubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-itos.net/admin/userfile/image/file/pifulozudulobogimukag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d098b9eed9---xedupivupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/36568103434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/kipol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranahytta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tekugarujojefodifataxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/651d066d384f4226ce13a932de4e8a80/wutanapom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc77d3051a---tonejazovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a30b6e8094---buwoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/137c90a82c9b6b0bf5dec5ec5343ce18/meturepudinibilujataf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+doc+zamzarPDF 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_off0000e0c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C1 10156 bytes
SHA-256: 93b2894a00f35c9395e64317f9f2e01a270691e4d6b3855991bc7903e4687a8b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f784.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF784 17324 bytes
SHA-256: fbf0bb320e787765834d79ca4a529f452424fab3b77df20d33a79683c2a37bbe
font_02_sfnt_off000124d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1