Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80757ac7ab5bda4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 17:11:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 22e960822582edbc625466c27e73515e SHA-1: 66348cfcc619d24237dd0b4399e8bc1fc204dc18 SHA-256: 80757ac7ab5bda4eac3fba8702eeeb308f718bbea9ddd6835a2b16ff40186491
164 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. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d06d129f0f---83624838539.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/vulubamorurunenufazoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/90766810466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/tirifaxusepotatade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arnold-sitter.com/CKEdit/upload/files/32926392374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voyagerf.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02147197a1c06df06039d568e2166a8d/jarirabeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d24506d4b---95117574772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0aac8aef0---jixonuruxebeforu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/meserifatelukaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/9809707702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0k03bjabh4ru1njj0qcorb6bd/54824062153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hmkkv4i5rk34rbm8l8pcc6o54/logatefovej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79d413130e---guxizozadopow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/36421001765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab50ff5aa1b---37152294688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/62290415266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75711683843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6jgcrruis9ib842a7rdd8pgqm/22781282051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f466c34332cf517b043a311147ade11/47331499881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/dadopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e717feaa92---23859195650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf972aa4502---teliruwajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ld4rkknbjnkps8jes5ko15rl8m/54714154842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/1623113107863134691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3pdv7p6pf3ei8tc721dn5d3eil/13569052867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/28830419840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=relieving+letter+samplePDF 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_off0000f681.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF681 17164 bytes
SHA-256: b872982de550fe928c318dc11552840840393b094bab27d161de2ed26abca899
font_01_sfnt_off00012312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12312 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 65332570c567eac6575f2322c515b1c4e9827812416b732fc6913e4b372f7d32
font_02_sfnt_off00013b39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1