Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80238c2d028e93c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 16:24:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c3cbf0d6e78d1cdfa76477f1991afdf3 SHA-1: af82a286972c4dc9d86ee3f435de440a3d215f49 SHA-256: 80238c2d028e93c1debd1585ce36c9df2de7b46fb482b9a1185ede61662ea47c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, pointing to a deliberate effort to obscure the true destination of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16499033119.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://artwatch.ru/userfiles/file/22987996264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad61f1b677---deloredawavajire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streathamtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/fofofasujegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/74263382335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/guvuvivugikeriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aletihad-group.com/userfiles/files/57449120978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olguanaokulu.com/upload/file/72425373597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43437591362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niktid.ru/userfiles/file/biwokedolumilesufuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afurg.com.br/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuzuxazavovibowibuwiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f5f42f925---pujakuxezolifenukozanix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a0f590df36---dupanelewogekekugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/73061010801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9jamail.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/boxawidadotajenuwaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herborgthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/tijuvurexizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunbot.com/upload/files/wojibuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.padanguparduotuve.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/babutesaxodisarelizumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7becbb44435fbfd8dcbeaaafb06f25b3/jurazima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careerroots.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dimusigibogedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satakantaresort.com/user_img/files/pezinobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac618362ff164ef07ca8542542d41415/tijejijobalaxuwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.portaldasfreguesias.com/portugal/vianadocastelo/vianadocastelo/geraz_do_lima_sta_maria/ckeditor/ckfinder/file/jagamikamalenulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinsg.com/files/fckeditor/file/wanunojagor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaketiga.com/contents/files/19590940786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=postcode+boronia+heightsPDF 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_off0000bb1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d32e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD32E 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 7822b84131f7a86575ff9b43b07bdfa5c36cf9a0d699453992a429e5d3129d31
font_02_sfnt_off00010093.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10093 10744 bytes
SHA-256: d75f31ee078461c0c88d7afb8f7eaeb8f717f756a0ad6a943f847cabe0abb82c