Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80c02a8361cdb4ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:14:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8a049e71363dcc50312cbfa71c4302ae SHA-1: db004b5e0a8bbb12e93e6b2ae8b86273dca1a93b SHA-256: 80c02a8361cdb4edb1bfce78de426da020babd09821581032ab9c7419ee2adfc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, with numerous URLs pointing to PDF files. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious or phishing content, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d180198210---11517161135.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://debeleven.net/UserFiles/File/38558435014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/taxemudinegikitok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bso30re07ph08pgv0fn84mdjm7/jabowuzopaxuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/lodaxokivowemusupofululug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f975ee8f222---88345302742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog//file/6721637845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/wepepixewekumux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nipeftg1ic0prn1ddl36gimng6/sowopopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/30175124087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/xeromutesoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d4afce65c---6180849505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ead6ddb8eb---96399884096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f3de278bd59ac6050004a4a04589b1f/91565927291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/tolapuzexugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://generalaudit.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/ratepukusabipadetude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/lejerejenesamaperipavufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.com/userfiles/file/rigajugofodizolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/wijuwagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mansiya.com/uploadfile/files/28790191041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=francesco+cirillo+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000da5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA5C 18736 bytes
SHA-256: db41c8c32275aaa7e93e311a1a95802ca88daecb0e603707cf72c071321f9adb
font_01_sfnt_off00010b70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B70 10492 bytes
SHA-256: df5ff4c5d94c678f00a243c461d1ca16487d936c9cede619583c60e20b283461
font_02_sfnt_off00012352.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12352 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1