Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80b4470fd1212e6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-12 21:20:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d785027e306d2a5317ca52a00b689c79 SHA-1: 57f82431b1c3f22aa5bae26e7ba98d4d1f232795 SHA-256: 80b4470fd1212e6b776516111e65c0dc8c7ba95f613b4c557092e4f6acba1b2b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that function as a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious websites. Several of these URLs point to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a tactic to host malicious content on seemingly legitimate but compromised infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=html5+restaurant+template+free PDF link annotation
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/98663810719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2-view.org/home/view/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gogovovevumuvedunusewobim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609538b766feb---wukokuvuratidusonanozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b773a6216d---pabesewakizisuwozoramokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i25o2uttej4auu8l3d24165454/jezimanifisexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingprocess.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zaxotetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/mutulafenitixutakafomok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdf27df082---dovututemixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa577770a4---37531822299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dientrotiendathc.com/media/ftp/file/85034239237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/3088252321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/fipolafobafufebaturekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f487999d2e---wofodotazoximexadoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/7115802812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/24379601099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11479 5132 bytes
SHA-256: ab200f5ea99d8a38de2d6f18b1814f6db110967f45bdcc4ffe73f051f2742192
font_01_sfnt_off000125d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125D5 11600 bytes
SHA-256: a22daec43f6f4036c656ea6d292d8967a625b93561cb8dce12571610f5f00e3a