Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80c26ac475e356e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-08 15:18:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 24b49e6a6265e418666602ef32d3dc9f SHA-1: c89a8c91c31bae116c103b99124242dc1f6788e9 SHA-256: 80c26ac475e356e7cf743ab600a29c51e40baaa62ab04e03e2bea07e4e646e8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure victims to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=icd+10+for+mouth+pain PDF link annotation
    • http://vestmorecapital.com/images/epost/megebanasapasabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e9abdbb73---72380959816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87b1b8d4c0---sixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecnoservizi.com/userfiles/files/23234784984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099646d43aa1---nivamavipimerebibisawani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/xogedipeluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/45360385208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qc9fsphjvr0hnqotauccem9k1l/6627200896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hankilfood.com/upfile/files/44521635475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fbaac5e1403df42d63f94e20bbb7185/83223225646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cbd44b232d---wojesaluzuzazodifafapegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6ab20f81c---lifijeneridatojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e26f5193b---76626805933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f24e5550f---77208865742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intrinhgia.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/favikemikenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao952glnvnk0aok1dovr5ga1ni/23861768315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/87315731501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/nerorumutajoxokiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba382dc58675c45659a73be71c212287/kesikopor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/90954847163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2558ab8b841a4e07c38cf697a0c76bb/suleme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solee.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59138189213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989973aeb43---makiviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608256d020081---wefexugaboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/nasipa.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_off0000f446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF446 18144 bytes
SHA-256: cb0b0d47c6e58865df809a954d35690b7d808c882beed818efe2a40d1e43d71d
font_01_sfnt_off0001242f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1242F 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 466c515f573068681ec0580a0801aa765eeb632ec3a2575938e6fe8593d28fb6
font_02_sfnt_off00013cc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1