Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80115b484a978315…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:44:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ca586175b0ec4eb7272ab77e40ddb395 SHA-1: a85b93afffd62fcc1f46bc288aa9d5a08bcee04a SHA-256: 80115b484a97831582980ec8d889442b841876f9e1cbaf3495c248d0459d11fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210701041644.pdf
    • http://hcvitamin.com/webroot/img/files/bopere.pdf
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/js68ddfa0gvjgmmp85atgoia6l/269076775.pdf
    • http://thehigh86.com/clients/13680/File/lipesuxabidexoj.pdf
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de2d4c6be57---terulapuzuwelibesosefu.pdf
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/wuzejorosunaromilajura.pdf
    • https://svrcontractors.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8363bf4316eec383cc059ecad811e4f3/17155859683.pdf
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e419d5bc2c2---86775619100.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e0ee047ab---90030210530.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afdce5b650d1927646bf5ac1f643b7dc/fefapodi.pdf
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e692eb36138---47704974433.pdf
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/34158009941.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2da85486e25dbece3cdf5be439437b9b/14162212814.pdf
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/97325779810.pdf
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zugewinakelevavi.pdf
    • https://bdsvieclam.com/upload/files/54516174386.pdf
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d270b4f06---22156796504.pdf
    • http://iscyber.com/userfiles/files/33651830525.pdf
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/vifaremoji.pdf
    • http://bigband-ulm.de/userfiles/files/bipidunaberivanepajaziz.pdf
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15eeun5bfnbu2j3955gkc7f4jn/56733709106.pdf
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107f7e1bc14d---firalevoxa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=oxford+synonyms+and+antonyms+book+pdf
    • 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_off0000c625.bin
4d23dc42fbf784b172da4c97f80ec80f293533f9dd215859903a73eceb292f3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC625 17188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f26e.bin
5d01939c48e0d67f1011203ddc0ce054eabbb3e561dbe2c71e95d8e96892b724
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26E 10860 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010b63.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B63 16792 bytes