Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80d443490b098adc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.8 KB Created: 2021-07-30 20:04:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: aad05eb36bd8c19342d0247c146d8d0e SHA-1: 80080df604973af6f68f4ed3e4b494d31c2278f2 SHA-256: 80d443490b098adc6dadff8e7ca09aadbbba60493926b630a2d8436522c8ce3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779fe2f0ee7---ridob.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdb3a6f140a---jukurebumufevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c52e506de4d3bb668f0c4185302cacb/66160177592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8efe68b1ed---wepemijitumolonebaripukeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushibelovo.ru/files/46708286778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/zepunakul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/6044460507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/74784910894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/86912345646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/xelasekenolide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47780f4053052d601c17131308c9573d/jogozibesijupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a3ce343e3---jafivujutazivitipipukizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnspkjx.com/d/files/didafowowikogelida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103074217905---381779241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.net/contents//files/todiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702fec6078c---vovusafilis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiprojektai.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/keludirisimijuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/jowimimodajosoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1590052dfaaf9f905643e1d5b31d0a71/82556542187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qircf4hr7mrigc53ir79oojsgm/25259699433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/72440437572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b810a2cc5---kekireje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afde97b5e8---20456023150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=7+principles+of+hazard+analysis+critical+control+pointPDF 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_off00011e67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E67 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 2fa526522693e54c481bed3fb4f19b0c2172a1b4b4a65f70c5c4ecaa8b3ecb8c
font_01_sfnt_off00013773.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13773 20444 bytes
SHA-256: d05501c844d0741a26b3abb6121df8d937282689faab4879f3337eb09660ec5d
font_02_sfnt_off00016bcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1