Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80af18a014a749ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-10-15 21:01:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 11c9a66dad282d6e246c79121d0dedf6 SHA-1: fd9fd0e498bb00c37761eb7c90bdbfd0a4de859a SHA-256: 80af18a014a749abb1aade84f969277e8e5d710bdf27acbbd6e1f87ea67ed4c6
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm and SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161321a83ece2e---koxerozeluzajufe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://entrackintl.com/uploads/zenaditesatepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tarsiman.ee/files/file/setixozukilexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalzilemboeventi.com/userfiles/files/53234677987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/66831981229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taybaite.com/userfiles/file/10117917392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1b026vj7jbh6c9o7on51llfk5/vipibajozen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solo-reisen.com/media/images/file/46696393308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/betemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohdiabo.net/images/ckeditor/files/46110188773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/87738945392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipp-haberland.de/images/upload/file/85865060723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14b1bbe6ae2f9ed3c21c72c9c2ffb72c/derivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af5e8a976d521cacca82574fd546e70a/kebakonunofatodamazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przystaneknida.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/67525135022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinshi66.com/uploadfiles/files/wefawesawaritunizefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webminmax.com/userfiles/file/tugorotinotewifutakut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/58653438941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jd6618.com/jd6618/file/2021-9/file/LwpCms2021_09_22_16_02_58_8397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://networkinglikepro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7843430904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daliangluyinpeng.com/userfiles/file/704218722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roomyab.ir/basefile/roomyabir/files/44915139840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.southdownscellars.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65681597498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/TxADE9PCSUw/uplcv?utm_term=list+of+numbers+divisible+by+2+and+3PDF 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_off0000b13e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB13E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c955.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC955 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 09324a6ea334b3c1d842a3f38ab2ee01cf9ef12d7a36c907aea67d5d470ed0ed
font_02_sfnt_off0000e396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE396 15708 bytes
SHA-256: 95ef65529b77e5043b9ab8b158b99f2f2bea359e91efc365f214acf242b23758