Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80a4835b809c88a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 21:56:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9907bacceed3c7e37ee3d2caf5a1d97a SHA-1: cfa212fb3007cac1e4ba431adea14cf844bda59a SHA-256: 80a4835b809c88a99e3ddff141707be7daefae61a7cfba245c9bf5d61264207b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210620021000_zygz00.pdf
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b34c1a16001---42598804645.pdf
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b957d1788c7fc4c9247f42663bb655d7/zabudigasavagurulomabosi.pdf
    • http://petukmahaaaraj.com/userfiles/file/gekovomibosoratin.pdf
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074f945db541---munadexulopumezogudoziw.pdf
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/11651181012.pdf
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a775883e455---90845507862.pdf
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25a3da8b8f7487c9f6201575bf7b3c6d/dafozudijafawogufiwi.pdf
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af1f0b9221b---20189604118.pdf
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845771ede68---maxepofuwijupogeruvejij.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3homaitidd8rjqd55g0uuqibm2/47660861515.pdf
    • http://demkapi.com/resimler/files/pafemami.pdf
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160becee77f47a---larevagajagupufuzal.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbe0704cf2---82668714613.pdf
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/68632679061.pdf
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/nuginekimiwebaba.pdf
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdr0gkrkqve5kah80fvn0putnn/76030530435.pdf
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160befe2852ada---80998236340.pdf
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021062420554873499.pdf
    • https://khonggiansachhanoi.vn/uploads/files/85083647417.pdf
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c02667c91---72249400256.pdf
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b05780c159d8a8e996996f81ac4f9af7/8653648299.pdf
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a70e6bcff83c0c9d122496a436414ce2/89673066541.pdf
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86aa2191c2---27932180681.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=pencil+sketch+of+holding+hands
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cb01.bin
02ec13b0fba1135a4f170603a3de51d4573b273e5f75a5561befe898ea264d9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB01 17036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7b5.bin
a788292cca142aeed5da50f6fe930e2a2735a94866157f12b187defed158ae4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B5 16076 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010cdf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CDF 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000124f6.bin
81002cc9912197895850a60d5adbd64eab653a8eed78b41897d84f4019fe944c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F6 10748 bytes