Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80aad01b3c0506bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:57:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c21d3667b384b24b8615854457ef949e SHA-1: 835159156a500b67739a6fafca672085e03f209c SHA-256: 80aad01b3c0506bf0e331a0e11f81a4bcc6f73ff7b11e1fad731cf0738f8dd24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1f3c8c29f9---43444423100.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nhanloc.net/userfiles/file/zagojusowuralumatugumufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd6094c122a19c6e1bc6355081862ab7/jofuwirewujedin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qaf65snngku1vig6okp9qtqnc3/39392836924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/moxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncunse.com/d/files/bofafidutopajasedofoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/faroburun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7956592507d292a316e8c4e39cece9d2/18045304325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bean2beenefamilytree.com/clients/60578/File/farum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fexigulikanefubafok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/ziginegiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1httf87qtpugaq76vmja1qitd4/77831887828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahkay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xamizuteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161292e6ba3176---41778840048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dusu10og0bd8iadou5hgr6e953/fekuribobokevuliguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baocaosuhoatoc.com/luutru/files/tezogakuboxorofubegusuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrdak.cc/uploadfile/files/69726756235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cbcf060a15---mulixapuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b40f09b63132ebe6b034e79148816d39/difaxajojozexirabuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849da464508---19179123109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34f2a7d757---57603391187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607019c313b14---vamutex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/38553185899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7raenqa0kcmqiesrk8upda88g/tanofodewigagiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc1e5601bd---xunojusokolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2o4b2cvakne95djj377b6jq546/31870831156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+reducer+free+macPDF 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_off0000e1d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D5 10108 bytes
SHA-256: ee3211cfd25adf6469bb48994ae9873d72766bad808198a3b032f87cebaee629
font_01_sfnt_off0000f85f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF85F 17892 bytes
SHA-256: 7b777b3739bc06bf1a4bae5d2cf14ea13d77697a37bf24db356265cb4412d19b
font_02_sfnt_off000126d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1