Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80732721372357d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:05:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: abf15e111a1fce82292bb1a29c3e1fc0 SHA-1: 22147571025421f77705c4c3ee1c54eb31bfc1c4 SHA-256: 80732721372357d0550d46c8a70d3c2dab5ca4e23710c75155d313204fefe9b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, primarily through its extensive use of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate that these links point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 https://ferropula.hr/files/buvebumuxonamufuboleto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/gavafufabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/Upload/files/bejasukolirufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://probeg2000.ru/files/userfiles/files/madapikebunanevakadegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e19fdfb04286e15741ec486deec16296/60706762744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8c55be097---80766062902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/47686894545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841ec34a959---20969211351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/69696979684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805064460a1---gajufadadolidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fa7035300c---pelubudibumenavokumofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/61278882120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/gunemivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/774357714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasaitogo.com/uploads/files/sotefedanewikedosumige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jkaamv99e39ra0bm563c9dcm4c/kuxadiwizupipoxejaxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwornawodzie.pl/userfiles/file/vozalavobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m93ra52vcfnhmsvvonrc9fp69f/17984559201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210630150418_ghpkep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atccs3.it/atccs3/fckeditor/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94309726519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.libyamonitor.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nabujolavamukulorurexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607025630887c---58746575034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/duponabijajazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/rimovopuzafepete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=alpha+and+beta+state+of+mindPDF 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_off0000ebcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCD 16948 bytes
SHA-256: a1da52a863c2202e9965cbaa961e8333cd9bd14d41fe6bf6c590979527bde435
font_01_sfnt_off00011751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11751 10784 bytes
SHA-256: c69436b51f53b7650a686d08c8c491a3a180e1c2ddf0a29815a909cbe90d5835
font_02_sfnt_off00012fb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1