Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80c1cb3e893caab2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:31:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 57efde7171ea3d6bc1ef121fd7a9dabd SHA-1: 9310b9f4a1671f6f0e81905b94f3aacb068870fb SHA-256: 80c1cb3e893caab29a3f749e56179c8555c3e9a8a43fe734dd7d93351b4ea860
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting its purpose is to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+100+book+list PDF link annotation
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/563e11cc7cf9433fb98e2ab3d427610e/fokupilibabopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd7c8dce1ff---geteroli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9afd4bea11077d89bd1bdf6a7f5bbe08/dijovoponefetex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/goxabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://binhchuachay.info/Images_upload/files/vunofasofarupojijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/wudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/210727195955926889rgh0is.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4n0d0vbnhb7930a18sgqcc6snc/72357839590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b82e1623cfa4a84ab7a272a297409462/94498443942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbe41a9b409---fukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f9d88dff2---48869158352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodez.com/pliki/file/52868479426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pbt74otnssc5ukdkifesv4pe66/wofowupinikepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/liwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents//files/86978052121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/walemudizofuvibepilosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pt1rpbhg6oggn5tj83njkbfuii/kugufesedasafafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ab353cd9a---36521895127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/zakewij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/vipilanevuvuxiwemowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leton.pl/userfiles/file/zetavugiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/57345262955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/filosexevutixaremevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2a2315a8f5b9913d53897bf35bf0d30/vatofigurutomebawamataga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b377f000c67f1d3be8def7d93e7d2376/gavedonujoveromeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e3df60d781e70d39e1fcb014abc0d3b/7850364143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5e1f10c3f---30903388225.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_off0000fce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE5 10208 bytes
SHA-256: f8ff187f84b19e5508bd3d5be925b5b71e75f7bf58ec7b0fcef59397869f354f
font_01_sfnt_off000113ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113EE 19036 bytes
SHA-256: 342b433ec061b4db6e6235aa7b5a0a92bf5b629208109d49b88861533a4745b6
font_02_sfnt_off000145db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1