Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80d768113a62d4ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.7 KB Created: 2021-05-01 00:54:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: fc9c8c5e3896212aad9ec95f58424ad3 SHA-1: 6ab6182365c6bbee24bde81fb2b807eb323941f4 SHA-256: 80d768113a62d4eaf586745efca52c4ea27d67d999bb5849e0bdf22553e7fe6c
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 machine learning classifier and ClamAV, which identified it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised CMS upload storage locations, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608474ca12dd9---fovukamikomega.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd2833f844---4402948201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/jixisisibagagojimosiveker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3481261b63acf7fa57ccdb2d223ff9a8/20549147000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b1a115042---gazukibapuxabawokufoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/186f1a3edb591ee511ee8a933e8dbafd/23563720665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59fc36ccce1fb37106992e2409c89082/dizomefedomomanilokolotex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1369eefd7a55b8121c4c0865b06b2907/fowuvasamuliso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4cc6c5bf87b68165752e258d1d99f9c/mexuzuxusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/605f47f20814694cc84b251a07296b16/bomeguxumilofobavidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/turokivefenipepelusebir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/175480c2b380cf029c151869923b0918/2911853930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oaefmtqibi14ggruq06tvbjki7/8265831164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opuntia.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f49c864a8e9226f983de8cd5d30459b4/90858426834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb75a2b22c---18132229494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080431a29c25---fubuxewesifukiwosel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2730acfb659bdccea62ba365bccd2c6/55262166413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ef4a1e017---sewibegapelitorewas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=bheema+songs+free++tamilwirePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ca8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA8C 5320 bytes
SHA-256: 5be55571c1927a50af7c97a3795a99be6f6943bcc4cc6646189b71f859518095
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC89 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 0f54a1b0920bcac2a03af1bcb6e57dac72e64ca87ae9d84a38a36363adf0743a