Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80290bd4bb441e4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-08-02 07:14:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 178f3e4ea526e67b6ddf72ab5095cdde SHA-1: a39f98550da3ec129542b30acb3b542f7fe38da1 SHA-256: 80290bd4bb441e4d5c86eb4392274285ae0653cf4d635e3d9fb49d46e993d495
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this as a phishing trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lead users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+long+to+evolve+riolu PDF link annotation
    • https://seltec.io/images/uploads/files/6794312074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitalclassof1971.com/clients/4/4c/4c1e4f015ba9b8bec237dc1ca705466d/File/lavopenigenekudiboxasebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.com/contents//files/45684066811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-rive-droite.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kibukupikirixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100507988f98---matepipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93934511714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/882d7kfub979t2d4ms9dl95p8t/jurodinekuxipuwiteponaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd7569e2ac55120e1f4eacca668e465/zisabemajubuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/864819b10b91d09a5db1e718535b788d/xafixulazupumexavokan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mides.vn/images/ckeditor/files/76102066223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindspacepsytherapy.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210527230621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a58fb02f7b---kojapuburubibavusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8t0bvao9nr06vmmhntpcqvcdvr6400g/63999784381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cqc-material.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/pezutomipobadesemipeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/funokunodajosexiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8a098da0c---28465086147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082803a81ea5---34758289239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--hjrnskadeakademien-mtb.se/userfiles/file/65351052275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/98498514258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnnsrtnhbs2crj6p3jr3thd6d2/71065209572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pv4kjfnnsb6u7cfu3lpue5qddr/26376527409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungvespaco.com/luutru/files/22099949449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/24918029974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zgkimsteszew.pl/img/upload/files/kumukobudojigubit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moje-stranky.eu/userfiles/file/zofuropodutesejak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///resumowow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fd62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD62 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11574 17936 bytes
SHA-256: e5556109eee378df2babb6dd118a7fc1e6c49c159cef789b1ba36e39f239e9b6
font_02_sfnt_off0001447d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1447D 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 876ed13d9d944cde8eb5abd4e93eac0034e5f678c868dbbbc3cd20eb6bd5d03c