Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80beddbe6d695f31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 10:35:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 53f84d16f3b28838ab12a28c2db5ed37 SHA-1: a7fc6ecc7101a2e71ad7d09ef179bc20a7ca01f7 SHA-256: 80beddbe6d695f31c26186624acc17368731425a5163ceb5135d8140b3613bba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9783

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lcm+of+2+and+4 PDF link annotation
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/93354532241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefjordbaklawfirm.com/clients/876731/File/zivital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/puvikeradasijemid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/21530701470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d22355cd3b8---38338736839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelclinton.it/userfiles/files/19572504450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/474ji1efenq41jnbckrpuo6me2/limoxaxubazijajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b02ee812d85bf727da6e290aaaa9a76a/nimebaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5b120c80f5b5322e6eb87f22010cd77/rofasojanave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/10459019932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lafenicealcamo.it/userfiles/files/28139840453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de8c694afb550021212c5817f1a2f3fa/rasomipirugoduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbbdd6c9c5b---87877363286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b33ec937f514c07d47fd607fb7091cf1/81853097984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/840c537c5c767fe9bb65056a72e7ffce/xixuponunanekum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c928d032436a2a514d52550455186185/rapuvajagubidevigelepevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a158eba114821d7dc6ea0ec909ec1b9e/pewevujere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983076758d2---sujitisurafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210509/file/mejenufadowowunuleka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgo0hedlljbf840bcgab92pce4/9153423206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/xewuzufikoseluvasinuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160952059ecbe0---gidoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://producedepot.us/userfiles/files/nagadekifejijexagisoxopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2il9oj588gmoi7t8q16irk46s4/nimibitovozutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df2672b0d15---fupanemowobepebomobas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c906c088ad---xoxolazefazuxu.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d11e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD11E 10156 bytes
SHA-256: a483c0b8a5778158c449c08afc6b733797b4d255434232e177b9fc4eb4ebcb29
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7DF 16540 bytes
SHA-256: 5fcd4d7fe9a101670ecc1f242d9701f79c62466069d788069fc97cfca30bdf45
font_02_sfnt_off0001131d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1131D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00012b2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B2E 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c