Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80801a22cbe0894d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-08-08 22:14:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 6bc00b400b3de3e0fa3f45f2ca09c55c SHA-1: 2ad3506f53199b51abf9fcbbb393c74beece1504 SHA-256: 80801a22cbe0894db50ee9c3405f80c8079df0c230f58b0e9afad37a610cc272
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a lure to download further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads points to a strategy of distributing malware through seemingly legitimate but compromised web infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+guia+me+divierto+y+aprendo+1+grado PDF link annotation
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/88352638977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da27a7e8dfc---telarixiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qualityitalia.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27387268504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa4ceb5f8e---81961405529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eca349bafc39b94a113b83547267254/ganurowifozixoreturenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jk6s2pgg35r858kctn06v6iul/kasataxajufaloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/67412241694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvanluatdanang.com/upload/ck/files/nebetadukaregev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fid-data.fr/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/26111966862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db36ef5aa12---32930262218.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4f53cefc8a81be2eef98b7a3eccd1fa/wudexevogeseruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102b48e3a190---9040811149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eho07knefk8us9vqmf34ambqg6/45746774089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2qfgfk0s9vstllod84c5bjjd2/909095984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campingwithconvenience.com/files/files/vipukufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkitv.com/images/upload/File/7089263692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c2c16219b---11722720925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/11575594723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69ce2b4de4f436341eb944ea0bf8ba02/175728027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prociweb.hu/sites/files/file/rasam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strechybenesov.cz/content/davizotipixitizuser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungqibiotech.com/upfiles/editor/files/90863573215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fototipia.hu/files/files/53549331557.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B5 19444 bytes
SHA-256: 140565278cc2c05145d83186af9aa823e842988b4c412c2d3381a817cf034d9f
font_02_sfnt_off000134ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134EC 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 739fd490920c9e29554a9da70d45a60021d61802325b43ff4535613cef92c2db