Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80d274221eac5495…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-08-17 09:29:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: db89a8c8805018249634272fd6b87af3 SHA-1: 461705d15072a8198ad93864812233ecb33b5fda SHA-256: 80d274221eac54951717104b4e4f0c678b7f19dea9a2f49de342a38072323a96
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, likely to download a secondary payload. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM firings strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109d38dbef7b---55503617611.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210624215902_1303365448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26e045eacc---fimiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/rudowosebewozitotop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726786d5d69---repinib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a67e26e3718f9770ce069e0941ef8254/lepowonoxalivaxuvad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://union.travel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94253613116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/pigugilemubesatojuvefuvis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/nixebelobosidesepujixolub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/bevosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chochosanencino.com/uploads/files/lupuwerej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fructusartis.com/i/File/29126474219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/zujaneduputuwisokuban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/13648479448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/jokasimabesaluneximoz.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202106/files/20210608104457938422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d15a11b86f---51560636040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qytbearing.com/upfile/file/bowipup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/63207271699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/28128206472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grhs1983.com/clients/72571/File/64333649253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808c6177fda---zinobeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0daa0782a---47783758078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=ban+ja+tu+meri+rani+dj+mix+mp3+song+downloadPDF 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_off0000d06f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD06F 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 64f64357aae046bd85730aebfd88e0a9d61c797712b94e4bf492a77d74c61bd7
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB12 17648 bytes
SHA-256: bdef78f29751e1aa6ae52850020d55e2a653a577102aeda1890d40c643f72e6b
font_02_sfnt_off00011984.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11984 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1