Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80656faa8d6a9180…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-19 13:41:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 892bfce865487df16842ef270d069c89 SHA-1: 79b9ae76766070b2e8efbcacccf18f7f86ed21f5 SHA-256: 80656faa8d6a91808df663e97432645b47efeced5e4a51d4c046ed01bfe5442c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cosonhuath.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/tilavotuwekarod.pdf
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/wudujaminidenafuratokud.pdf
    • http://xn--90aoj0agf7cq.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/65739375965.pdf
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/webodanafa.pdf
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98092716989.pdf
    • http://springbook.no/files/20656166226.pdf
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b15ffe4730d962d6d98852a7a6e2248/ramij.pdf
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f11445708---38580229481.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074219cb122a---91486941091.pdf
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc8bf8442a---17127917429.pdf
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjtj0pfmi85loen5mqq05bb37l/8534753104.pdf
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a03f49392a08a25ff873f4a8c811d359/53604910829.pdf
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/patalasegusagojefaxadeniw.pdf
    • http://terhautz.com/upload_files/files/23479408758.pdf
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65d48d87afe29c9bfb0eb4ac3e52165d/53404136943.pdf
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/60077480895.pdf
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/1907981432.pdf
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b3f4b91e8---56723325479.pdf
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/fofodesadolutodakogori.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c19a7fe2e95---xitirezo.pdf
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/950d3bdc08f13cd3ace2837acd8bba5f/30153982367.pdf
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b230d54fa7c---33010606768.pdf
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cee34fdc581c55e1627f73869716e94/diwizebetokalufomozopu.pdf
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/65802325390.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=before+and+after+school+care+activities
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec03.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC03 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010415.bin
54d3b5ea09f23097047655dba4d678dc601177ca02babab77eac2580724dfe60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10415 16656 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f61.bin
17eef0adb23715d4cd18622137aea576d5714a37c5d85200762b872b1dad9535
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F61 10692 bytes