Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80b15c00c9a7e580…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-08-20 03:01:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 89ed6f8e68ce93b56b81e77c8ad7bc2a SHA-1: f7d2f87d4430f403cadfcb6b7468342f591b6ac5 SHA-256: 80b15c00c9a7e580e6ddb2219262188484c9125b6741a89407ecdaa4bf13c6fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this PDF as malicious, specifically flagging it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure suggests it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://luisacortesearchitetto.it/userfiles/files/piwexumed.pdf
    • https://optimustelecoms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fisaj.pdf
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/61804142780.pdf
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac6580eef0---febovosukal.pdf
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gupod.pdf
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa39d0b5ec9---kasedivaxezuxumajefuze.pdf
    • http://colegiosantarosa.com/uploads/imagem/file/91202201050.pdf
    • http://compow.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buseparojelod.pdf
    • http://china-zzld.com/uploadfile/file///2021071016271175.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b76dee77d5a1dcddd3c14a575af6ff80/patabuzewuponobowe.pdf
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/39325357064.pdf
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2de6d6d052ee14b8876efc3b5a62f12a/42271393035.pdf
    • https://ms01bet.com/contents//files/verikorisa.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1e4be6a86a5b370cb21a379189b7694/28501346888.pdf
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/14207106186.pdf
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/26801322129.pdf
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d1d20f1d56e55f1c801bd09a2f0f897/25405460408.pdf
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efe7539d9c5---46835656953.pdf
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/95973122189.pdf
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/16930956736.pdf
    • http://hoanhaochemical.com/uploads/files/75240493190.pdf
    • http://poultech.net/d/files/83752836236.pdf
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/25630543836.pdf
    • https://mttrasportisrl.it/dati/upload/file/radapenuma.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=numerical+analysis+mathematics+of+scientific+computing+3rd+edition+solutions+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd3a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD3A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011551.bin
2701f39fa21afee8d592def58a961ef6fe7aa38e4b8748ee133b6e6e863427f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11551 11432 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012ff0.bin
986c859ff2e16e990e8093f3587a8250645f8c983a1f189ed18af3db98eb46cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FF0 17800 bytes