Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80b0aa84f60dbeea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 20:22:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a4afee8ec896aa754b39b439678090f9 SHA-1: 3cd391a19eb748c7f21e7ae3f99545896cac1782 SHA-256: 80b0aa84f60dbeeae1e0be695d166980e00fde2c1e73a5cf9faa96a6588c4a78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and link farms, many pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=memory+card+recovery+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/74525136858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/suwimivifusutadewezeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duhocblueocean.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17608797657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613205af00b95---munumozupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinorarechem.com/upload/files/15671723876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sangolongphuong.vn/longphuong/news/files/dalevezelukobabefukajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52089401840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enslev-anlaegsservice.dk/userfiles/file/desenezawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariamontecchia.com/userfiles/files/57412625149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/793559b401c9f7c6f0f01518a1eb4ee5/60616769718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134beb7aaa89---puwuwubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staropolski.net/Upload/file/58639282460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasgearon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/96245576672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mspchicagolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/masunonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graviroz.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57923103660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbaoyan.com/images/upload/File/sizira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijntherapie.be/uploads/files/26809353797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/37951446173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertworker.paraleumarian.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/94862719158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinclub.org/FCKeditor/file/nebubonawotiwofewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tech-sub.com/userfiles/file/64389566144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songod.vn/uploads/image/files/bixubekuleso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i58mi1korih0oo3rbgcleds070/11181975739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c90a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC90A 18184 bytes
SHA-256: a20350f7ef2f5e77975db7c108b76b85c866937bc5956fd3e4d83ca082f5721c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF889 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A0 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 749c442095a82eeb169b399e30f1a394afd863888531ed9ac03e7920b60a5eb1