Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80579f7502c8485a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:17:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c0d54fe48b7e2834b5d30a6961de55ab SHA-1: 992e98137a63402264e1135a3d66913ce418e683 SHA-256: 80579f7502c8485a96cedb0f1d9d6bb4051c1808e677d7b7692f1dd353c492bd
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of 'cmd.com' in the document text suggests an attempt to execute commands or disguise malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://qdcmd.com/data/files/28903264711.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66143894124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudraconsultancy.com/uploads/files/widegozovasulijozopowijox.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/jaxozeweniboxona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-partner.com/Image/files/79703558051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oilbasaro.com/web/images/ckfinder/files/20210831233244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/runoziganazugigepizefus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwavipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/88310026138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2596a51170---19561035384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c989ca6ad7824449f15df04886ffb64/9620297458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/relazikefiroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicalproduct.hu/images/files/86272256732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6bea29cee4---30257861044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65863790365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/420b27ee87328e31d1441df92dcd6de9/tovaloruxusumadolovavonaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmip6md5ipbq5v7dm495kc018s/34299815592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/razewegipov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/tuvumewibopupima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sg72vhhopdm3fd5c78bug274g6/fenetur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e046a31dac---xuzimunijuzulelidefuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d08de501d---17722146582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/66730787620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2544c7ee7---5020672964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+lose+weight+in+legs+and+hipsPDF 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_off0000c1de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1DE 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 25c04fbaba7f265a30d994b0e9ee389972df446ac7a668e7940d053ec513d9ab
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9FC 15448 bytes
SHA-256: bd9e781422b9ff93134826d8bb45b4c740273975670099fc9b99ee8e9c23f71b
font_02_sfnt_off000100e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1