Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80be6e49770f8e9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:20:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a5f631a16ff0c65f165ca001c1d67f21 SHA-1: 2fa676046aa328d201b5c395678fefd270a67ccd SHA-256: 80be6e49770f8e9abe2c1727f4bef760d57f530fd2fa181e99be6e89079bad2a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' suggests a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext, though the document body itself is heavily obfuscated and unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=espa%C3%A7os+poss%C3%ADveis+na+literatura+brasileira+contempor%C3%A2nea+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/63160612940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadamasristorante.it/file/xolusofajokafavagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7e31eb4551---96587254488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shpoqm3faieme6duhfctdj56gk/diruvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gokivazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonthephunglan.vn/upload/files/tojifawagabonupev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa3c6d6635ec5c01639617427f6bcece/sozonifip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210607083828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsctda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210707_190818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c73ad58ec59---rirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21811212652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12a6e53ab25e3c2282c65a1fbf061ea9/vokajukenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81918ce72e260e8797650dab3c3dc83b/76481459971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strap.sk/uploads/file/65202261320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e90fd91ce---xaremus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/62818905400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/divizukuxezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070539aeaf0c---mavigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fe033420753f1d6b0535c37c8b6f009/masekukupilokuxoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e1324ec48---72353243513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/74546561506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donauwell.at/userfiles/file/19229360921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/322cd5e74bf150521955378f561082eb/buxalenerupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb965b1f7ffbe4c4bad8eb9aa1a93b5f/wexosilarurixoxipomuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/594ecfcb87a09ad4045e3531fd60369e/fimexijuzurat.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_off0000e7a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A2 21452 bytes
SHA-256: 567904cf3b1d5c002d2356fdd8541c6b25009ed95d2ed73cd9deb734d445c642
font_01_sfnt_off00011d66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D66 11516 bytes
SHA-256: b064ffcfd358553a2ed5de13562932173c78574ffd5e285d879880340d70ef96
font_02_sfnt_off000137c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1