Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80d4b0365a77dc0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:44:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 087549f2e9a5c7f0bd30aa585c085a0c SHA-1: abf92ce362c950f17aa69784111464868ea76376 SHA-256: 80d4b0365a77dc0c3aeb9d832535553e19be260c410a96cc4aaeab662a16d3bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a likely attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://lacyfamilyunity.com/clients/2/20/203fd950dafdada58ea32e7b96f0d147/File/84125265347.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19be372a5c87747d7341fbf636461aec/50709707849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pfifgob79a0trmbsknl95bjngh/83744246028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbc8c14635---fidotagujeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830aac6c457---tesulifafapituradetogisid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ea8f80112---58658999869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9d70a9fbe---jexomusoviwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cfd5021278---zuduruzusug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06133a95dae4b6dba18ce0ad96b7b44e/62867448633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892f9fc8ce2---98957450054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.net/images/uploads/files/fotoreganufevifebif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd7c2fdfce2---wanarokewesemibolako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a267d3ae298---dowobazimitajitaduduzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ad1a2093b516dc6aa6fae443be922b3/musabovukuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f01b662ac---meratulipef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f84d603dcf---75875728205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/er08b2cgesud46qbrcul6vgu48/31350153563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffdb954b2d2552f390fead089be36f72/dozuxujarijerirefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/54111626573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/40197901276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/78635918678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2df02a116c889ef196651890ef5dada/levup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e82c945f37---74453712733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9146215f40---41906261627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=roots+digital+watch+manualPDF 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_off000116e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E8 21692 bytes
SHA-256: feef280ff65642ffb5fdb761c464eaebedbbe1c6e8c025065842d9a5ee8a998e
font_01_sfnt_off00014d1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D1B 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 8b9b943f8dfd035a88ae4567d0e0b073cb9569f99caf6654b8ecd3e636731e91
font_02_sfnt_off000165b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x165B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1