Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80569a1a98e8e974…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-08-29 12:07:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 93d9f2101e16ad24be13aa71e68edc93 SHA-1: 8360153ea0fb63f7a9bb9482e66565f88abf7547 SHA-256: 80569a1a98e8e974c4e9301bdb3ec4c373e122bb49d35fa192c9fcd4a9d4a2ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many external links points to an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://15fratrowreunion.com/clients/2/2b/2b18ccadde375fd95e9ac2d5db5aaa67/File/59433385799.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecde448d19c5a0b776f84d7779bc32b3/zisibuzulep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoriamayorprayerevent.com/clients/1/16/166e3f524b51ec168ebfd48f86188a1d/File/9855506717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b956e54a246---jolikinuvofekiwaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907a44c0501---67907915627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/234a2erbe01q6rfclkmb286p87/23423719871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonme.net/ckupload/files/44510778446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/klfjgihc004jttmr4v168hh4pv/sinagitegokukuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfindia.in/userfiles/files/75152075194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855841c1d2e---64415677529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/mubofosipemotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924d7e8070b---66885308659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5ff3b63f4---73709849506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/69642575385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinczeandlaszlo.com/upload/suvizogowaziritidasukaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd437c31e2---kupaborumipavox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phone-server.com/userfiles/file/nabomosibev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa8b3c84846---wixodepapefugirezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/68429156966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/mukudedegodob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/soveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/81835502588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f63bf8aa85---95222166124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+spawn+a+wither+stormPDF 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://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_off0000d7bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD6 10904 bytes
SHA-256: db99c78038d4a16ad792a92c4d08afdbbbea0caafbec7ad06c5a578bd07c2948
font_02_sfnt_off000108e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E9 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 917380058385c386ac1f1966ddb43d258001acada4948a27b187cf89a5944b3d