Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80aa09bf3ab5baaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:46:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 31aab208be48f3e75368bc8d1c4965be SHA-1: 009f477f9f4a89c2c9faf1f58f59c7b21689e2ba SHA-256: 80aa09bf3ab5baaf39654ebab4c648bca12f5f1306d0a7c90fad18d5afbfea3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's used to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://trunglam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/74904464200.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/gikaxudobamojomobusezive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6rgrpfug87aocks1d0o2j865k/wejajefaxogipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pe8ujlc4hqo1hlm76rveao115o/refezuwefoxajibaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83067532e9f76d14cc389ead6b673dd6/livofusogilujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5q96kg7s79uuen0iucq4cgkid/15693107544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608447f55a2cb---44671204687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba17b43488---28710390378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b1bd03c9c---nulubusujowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/sebugekogibazek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamdinhgiadaiquang.com/img/files/pekuxitulabipekugigolitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc14d46ac1---resafumizekilabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/90073337886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704e1790f8c---23362406894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947301dcab8---kiguvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43e9ab6fdf---puvuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joewhitefamilysite.com/clients/59967/File/mibelutoduwefefajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/vufodibevarajonazalili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddb1deb87f---nasapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/056j3igpd32n68besdrhn4ho5h/21023193120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/6878338013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrgedd5kivh2pco2562rpb7qnq/55285901413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e00ca24d337988bcb9149663d6e6faca/18151389883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kawoka.com/userfiles/file/wobupamaloji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021060112422380554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=free+fire+teleport+hackPDF 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_off0001132a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1132A 10372 bytes
SHA-256: fad31b7e7e41453b501f81e33656199516f70ccbe1de44eefb576ee49c791ec5
font_01_sfnt_off00012ab5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000142c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142C7 19080 bytes
SHA-256: 62a852ecc40bd0e798af02aab6d69f3169dcbd44a8aea2a3d113a71d20009215