Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80080b87166789a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 12:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8e25d0ac20417878e741068c372c31e3 SHA-1: 7e847fe8d00664ea4cdfdfadf256c9ed125088ce SHA-256: 80080b87166789a8b8d40a860368a2c3690810a7e5ab2e4dfd511e55450e78d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO poisoning to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious redirection scheme.

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://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/xiguvinun.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.net/userfiles/files/40962172435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/conpsg9olj4imaab1uj5pdh084/9933606314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/98012696380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.com/admin/file/62823918883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nprofit.hk/userfiles/zupawinatis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safecampus.in/cmsCart/upload/file/59375068686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whkmradio.com/userfiles/file/nuvokulogirakero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a9075a1ab0---8118670111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/zupovajavadutuxobufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a907d9c214934c7699a79cb94b4233ac/97006415673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/2319270392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessnavigator.in/ckeditor/uploads/files/31977661479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatiyabhashaparishad.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53304774675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valsadindustries.com/userfiles/file/kemazawiligefelora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/nesaxubuves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnumprint.ru/upload/files/fulebifazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/ridopimitizoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkamerah.com/contents/files/58615420580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinahongji.com/d/files/74530178637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147a3d47a16a---nekaxawodesefumazarakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=god+eater+apkPDF 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_off0000c800.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC800 18244 bytes
SHA-256: 40a32b3cde011118e5e162b1bcdd47fb36c2853833063b90320484d04ba904e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6BF 10104 bytes
SHA-256: 3b85eac69b901495d4cf3324017b1fe098db51759d3107e41fc05b571aa36100
font_02_sfnt_off00010d6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1