Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80cd18f163b50e44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:11:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 16adc1461b3fa894f1f4ba0cc4ab979a SHA-1: a4223f008d61ce213998d4135c78b5a24e33bff3 SHA-256: 80cd18f163b50e44c8fb8eb8557410fe1d7196583b91e72418d6ef296e9bbc81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The file's structure as a link farm suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://piotrkowska77.pl/zdjeciafile/57761929625.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cc6679754cce3ad1b1417832fdb22b2/nivivovowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfcans.com/home/madarmun/public_html/gulfcans/images/bulk_images/files/2217816953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keongracun.org/contents/files/tatibonixetorosuroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primeasset.hu/fileok/file/93503516875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://closehorses.com/userfiles/file/82989101665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smpnuenen.nl/images/files/42340644940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/44534346451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcfkenzi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91893004837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79602480393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210918_094411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winstar-tools.com/UserFiles/editor/file/40995186360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lircai.com/web/inline/file/webetijasedixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/nojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1325960b97609eb1a3f7d1130d944003/64140497904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aa9339bcaa5c90fcc4bdc8e004cec73/mixuziret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/23445379999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highendteen.com/userfiles/files/dejabojukokikeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137362119952---rigunomejata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sithome.com/upfiles/file/20210906210137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valkexclusief.reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/29151855194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/talejivurudobuxebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.painters-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/38023219847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wdnederland.nl/file/95293307245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unitec-egypt.net/userfiles/file/mepuzojugokupanizepinebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+super+live+wallpaper+pcPDF 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_off00010476.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10476 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 0022e29135dd57c96af9683e9481b184f4769855c2c138ccc12223fb78d7af17
font_01_sfnt_off00011d6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001357d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1357D 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 067bad49009e2d172046fa5191e48315a7428241ab008def83cb20632f5a6021