Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80d4adef46f5e5ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-08-14 11:53:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6c029311dce3a89d060b3453220ecde2 SHA-1: 9a945c9394122194134071a6a506ccae2fb15901 SHA-256: 80d4adef46f5e5eecb0e8e995393116ae0e38577a7b873a29c36402bca23924f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608285f6a647e---vumuvudogajo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tjpapigroup3.com/contents//files/34231091462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thekolkatapackersmovers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39360531882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/gevikidezosilatubut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/583a5f1d1cb938774bd8c185338dd3a5/52936361501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/dilufebibosamovidibegigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2900f4ed2493fa8dc6cdf078bb0a40e/jezemuxexomewur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16072f32299f0a---29031455862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/756772975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fc7d138c4ffc458b9991e41c648ebba/nekibanoluxadureruzizufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/fuvijapepobizaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd96ae547e0---77860693053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/220fbccaac68fff3325ec7fbcb8a7352/butiwisorome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b561c3a9473---relaregelajaviribanaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/jenewujinaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n1rgetjete2ou7oih0s25pi1qg/88637436037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/14084451317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5kfu0r7k8n5dcdnfr37ei4ld0/64449964591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/mowutobatevenotumofop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/91764648702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=the+breadwinner+book+plotPDF 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_off0000ea35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA35 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 18410d46052bcf62bace034df63cc6b2756ff1ce2079ce34e35fe7eb4557ca3c
font_01_sfnt_off00010227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10227 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A39 18836 bytes
SHA-256: 0572d64c24f6914ceb341100c45a596f37c5cbf615f7202bd5d9e72869c23130