Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80dca3ad71767a46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-25 13:19:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7d635a9a2345cf2327c794446b6d9fd8 SHA-1: 1e865477d1cb3a7379b5e1204bdb6f251dcb62d7 SHA-256: 80dca3ad71767a4657d964247f015ef3aa551746ff4d3413a5e630b25cb04429
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external URIs and link farms hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple links to PDF files on compromised CMS upload directories suggests an attempt to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lucid+adventure+idle+rpg+mod+apk
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/vuvesofusemafimupub.pdf
    • http://daisytalavera.com/userfiles/files/zisezimakatusitebogapudov.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131cfc73de78---senuzilezavikuvokufaxot.pdf
    • http://leoclubmarsala.it/userfiles/files/tiwiwasotasajogiseku.pdf
    • http://ntep2008.com/UserFiles/File/womuliwerarin.pdf
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cf8e1a6327---63069694255.pdf
    • http://seidels-mineralienwelt.de/images/uploaded/file/dujus.pdf
    • http://etyekilovarda.hu/userfiles/file/20777792952.pdf
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/tabeguxumet.pdf
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/kisozufupozubijozuriloze.pdf
    • http://clear-es.net/yamituki-n/uploads/files/59768138808.pdf
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/files/11033092026.pdf
    • https://rent-1.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23506387627.pdf
    • https://noursportevents.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/85014160191.pdf
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f1add784d---15109474792.pdf
    • http://www.smpnuenen.nl/images/files/muduxojalexabefijijipigoj.pdf
    • http://phanvienphianam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kukozatagotobini.pdf
    • http://gorsilawfirm.com/userfiles/file/22833870022.pdf
    • https://cevhertemizlik.com/userfiles/files/20563452267.pdf
    • https://iringmalaysia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/717471961.pdf
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff654a3257bf375af7a268fb45c213b7/mobisurugupi.pdf
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/49329477443.pdf
    • https://giltmorestukko.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diguvoxixex.pdf
    • 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_off0000af76.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF76 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c788.bin
4f683ebbb740ae4540cf292e85fe35adc8a607c6ce79653ced3beb960734977e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC788 18676 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f709.bin
a5c41822cb171fc39ffc86e3cacdd6430f28eeb905ff56e0f336dfc7ed2e31f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF709 10904 bytes