Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80aa4e930611efe0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.8 KB Created: 2021-10-01 02:49:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 858c4a3664da2fa72d8df93076f6f685 SHA-1: 75f8414a2c946609d809596444e827d0c85fe448 SHA-256: 80aa4e930611efe05d32502c419eeca7506a51e16b2a1942ac63ca3e8fbbd7c4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and embedded clickable links. These links point to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within form upload directories, hosting further malicious PDFs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lead users to a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153aa7246219---melafubidoxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nhatnamvina.vn/rich_editor/file/13674648694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/09/06/file/5075090863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubesolbra.com/uploads/files/58424382938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139539a096d0---pelifibarubajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/29347210292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2ab922d5b76dd7f38a65aa65125a08d/kefonemodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161464988e1966---39428161945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zanarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/77340423272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haitrungkim.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/11248278741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/loporesoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecbec5fef0966ae23c9aa9701d4d20e4/pekureni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotellemaritime.com/hotel/upload/files/gavif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aceitunasdelguadalhorce.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tudagujefotewutekirofijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/fobijaloja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://american-security-inc.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28249609079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/76298471765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rts-3.ru/upload/files/53569041306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guchen.ru/d/files/xalafidoxofedujapedit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c092e4075c69361bf05a4fd1e74428e0/rijuzadabedifudof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talcmanagement.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/sixazuwaforo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/puwimivumegazobejevat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vividconcept.in/userfiles/file/10207938439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juncheng.tw/upload/files/4698339777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=mirror+bay+proxyPDF 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_off0000afd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFD6 14276 bytes
SHA-256: fda6dcd9fcdf76989e8f1abb91bd760e099feae398c9b21ef0e8e76db5d894fd
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B2 10044 bytes
SHA-256: 16d9936fcd63e811b9585648aad4a093aacf7b4e245f8d5e0c77b736c966b20c
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1