Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80cc4f7cddfeb873…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:32:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1962a8b0ba774ac6106e320026cd1cbc SHA-1: 31b53078214b33f345bd5727aacccabca341fc2e SHA-256: 80cc4f7cddfeb873e9a97bc564fb634ea7e3081cc0c8548aa9754711ce18dfa8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the heuristics and the presence of embedded URLs strongly suggest the PDF is designed to facilitate phishing or malware delivery by directing users to external, potentially compromised, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://ozhelalikram.de/resimler/files/54762389955.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/37554154720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1dcdd8965f1a87208b367ecb803d10d/73759831882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d067bad64e42849eae6dd1f5651954d/xipofabixuriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bebatebufati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607132f520510---wotaluzazijozinunenagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/35197179372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/rotivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8f0430b24b---kikelafosalenotokun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cebe765b42edd2b0511a4a636de38108/23841819120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coiffurenais.com/userfiles/file/lusuduzetalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021062303474765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-etalon.ru/upload/files/82155426399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f67dvd6ppjhbpsgm7qim6lfer6/81187602314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/4974885891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/xenuruwatoxolej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/vimuzijarupezunepudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819c3730240---dimazujomezogex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d57c228bc97---62235375716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gg4fn8s2c1e4jq1e1n434f941/98993495654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607599106da7b---17036349764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4463da61f---bojozizadapekoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3ef7e562cc450f21a21a1bd226141a0/visabibiladetamarer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=lenovo+x1+carbon+specs+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_off0000b2b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2B9 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 813585cc588d5cefff98d35575a2cc74d665f89da855bd02491ae80b78bd3aa3
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB41 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE353 14964 bytes
SHA-256: 3d54c560c80a0e6dcbe406404bb6fd4330880ee24a39d7c8552ecf6e043242f6