Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80db42f8412dfe2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 11:53:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 096bfb8b718f688b1a01aeedfc853b38 SHA-1: 48d431c2d617f5e09a62c61ecaccf16d26cfb385 SHA-256: 80db42f8412dfe2f87d82038a90722a0ac99ca472371a12de39fe2a085f34ab6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits PDF vulnerabilities. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/koriduxulojejida.pdf
    • http://hnkingdee.cn/Files/file/202169173312.pdf
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87c8ec9a65---1650512851.pdf
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/siwiwegabavas.pdf
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90797ffb5828e388ee860368ed47d8d8/47754860806.pdf
    • http://pumarecovery.com/userfiles/files/58559633297.pdf
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c93c2d245f---worumurafewetisu.pdf
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f760b0944802e1213476d3617004469/sibobuvog.pdf
    • https://sankaibearing.com/userfiles/files/8986971182.pdf
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7a07e8204---95097891652.pdf
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/jirisitonisad.pdf
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec3a179c1e6ae6135af7ab235c949816/rigewukesaxap.pdf
    • http://monticellotownship.org/userfiles/file/zafaxixukosuj.pdf
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dei2dh61577k2dkv2cs4da6ic1/71227600123.pdf
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4834a04cf---41254871423.pdf
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/694d75d250818c9edcf29731368f833d/72105617154.pdf
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee1fbf9163192027afdad89176908b3c/vosajasowawo.pdf
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/64959952869.pdf
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/26015285995.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af91cca027c---bozezisijokewapufixe.pdf
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20fee7ffc8de34feb1caa9d3a2eec282/47117188721.pdf
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51v9jkqqh7t4ffeh7k6p3b1ug8/39178751292.pdf
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf35a9e242c---97165386667.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=fisioterapia+pdf+gratis
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e66a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE66A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe7c.bin
e38e2c09a05709e83833b1859d290e5fcefc519baa4185105ad1fe338db9fbba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7C 18708 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012ea6.bin
b76ab11242aa4678328c98338f1760f3f0bd00c83723e29645aa9f97ff65a5b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EA6 10500 bytes