Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80dafe32225c12b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:45:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 012f30b6fc018f6512cecb22221305ae SHA-1: f8fd8860d1a00ab98823c57745a06b5d852fac96 SHA-256: 80dafe32225c12b806a6ba3bdfc33b5cc8a927d88d0e11ab934c5288283e8380
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links appear to form a link farm, likely designed to distribute further malicious content or lead users to phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af4d352990ccae20682963f5d352fc64/rasikolewanewujaruratefi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161090884bfed0---47201971800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/32320355374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/49739581872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/73885598592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbd09281d5---61729846652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://storemisr.com/uploads/files/48346439372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792abbdf88c---1279674283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9388100120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/66174012290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81f2bf29475a7aefea7754b8fbd1e694/69334125558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb845c224e8---pogalubajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/jisagavilivazavak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veribase.com/E/file/63069857355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/bozezologigobebitaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetis156.neutronds.com/assets/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58824475571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karinameal.com/imgdish/files/zinug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/goxazerivizorow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/9695664849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18q5aq0fqp1la7leun457a86h7/wajemerezami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=two+letter+words+worksheets+for+kindergartenPDF 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_off0000ad8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c5a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5A5 10776 bytes
SHA-256: eca8797b49388702afc20c4caa3d5692bfc1fa990091dc43e953724ab882f1c1
font_02_sfnt_off0000de3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE3F 14992 bytes
SHA-256: 1fbdc3cfd38a0203f58aa2f7928d3491d83d8e061fb4ea1a370251a745a1f58a