Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80610e41d158494e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.0 KB Created: 2021-08-20 21:10:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e66b14b654cae4c60628b368f512933b SHA-1: acd6ac88a8ac8e0b830d2a893d7c8bda0f378d66 SHA-256: 80610e41d158494e6bae8156d59b4fa94a0d750b087b7c7542669388c54c4efd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the links suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=es+el+peso+molecular+de+fe2o3 PDF link annotation
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ots11vfqk9hl4l6kgjcu0saucc/29147523436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guineaservicesproviders.com/gsp/files/goxifexowovexit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahmission.org/dataroom/file/97043217980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b49d3236fd---javonesolurujaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021061910144373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkglobalcompliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakewiderifaverutoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/buborarakijorubuxuwajiber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3beae083c---92698670453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highrise.pl/file/65027445783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henca.com/files/details/file/17819556381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiahpa.com/flash/files/6318209601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g0bqb8vi3s8vb8bdm8m5vlrjfl/3407305942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fondationmonetoile.org/clients/0/0e/0ecfe6182781ff486fe5156d2e85c11d/File/26524664145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sah7pvj6v6u4ehctloqteefln3/lojepixavisoletukagizoxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/lifopanevajude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4of100churchstreet.com/assets/media/files/gazaxolanalixevulevapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d65fdacbbcd---sububikivawonog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/jaragomofojepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/28064399190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanmih.com/userfiles/file/20210721194218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c13179dad---pafimudujew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be2543684ed8fb0e7f9c691c681c5d05/7025135758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biirbeh.mn/images/content/file/45588706517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rs-entp.com/upload/file/96523450512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609826aa9eefa---67064995210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c69ba5b1ffb---venewevufaratal.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000125b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B5 1224 bytes
SHA-256: aa05cf079b0d51a179545f5e62b3a4c6ff1088f47710f8d6c04d42c0465d7343
font_01_sfnt_off00012cd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000144e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144E9 10860 bytes
SHA-256: f942efb11b081323816172bb53cff223db24faa8bebf1ad47986f18496307c2b
font_03_sfnt_off00015e13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E13 19164 bytes
SHA-256: 29ff5e10cf3e7fe6540e9b174c3f1c4d749f72b432593425818e7b10832d2e1d