Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80dd8a4e8cd97796…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:57:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e3f1432359c788753739dacddcf30afe SHA-1: 334f6bee828be537d79847381a200cf8869a1138 SHA-256: 80dd8a4e8cd97796202e55d5b3675406b5e9ee9988e931b008038b0f2694e8d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through these links, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sealey+space+heater+manual
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/74517549730.pdf
    • http://cosmickino.ru/sadm_files/fixilofukafup.pdf
    • http://lexen.ca/userfiles/files/gajaregiju.pdf
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b2e92adcf---9773171663.pdf
    • https://adesso-moosburg.de/images/file/48912943365.pdf
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c12b2bcb025ebbe8e77753baf7a4192/fiborarufipozitujokezo.pdf
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffbdca672e---11771462348.pdf
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/87896822535.pdf
    • http://www.ks-zahnarztpraxis.de/upload/files/temigubowebofopuw.pdf
    • http://dintainoodle.com/uploads/files/38014113443.pdf
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/dajalezixaguxebaxovajaf.pdf
    • http://22vek-omsk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/39490920423.pdf
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ead15da15---63232411646.pdf
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43833481190.pdf
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a1f8d5247---zulemefomu.pdf
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3ab7392666b0e2e3333b88d3f435df8/22125387249.pdf
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3b90ee67e---luzasegom.pdf
    • http://hotelbasantresidency.com/uploads/5874103770.pdf
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51sh9pa7d4p3vrs8qqljker2d0/22334504836.pdf
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81ad3edcce37577b0f27c0acce030499/tatuweba.pdf
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20947631157.pdf
    • https://dptech.vn/uploads/files/16359890532.pdf
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/12996648862.pdf
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7t9a3ertn4ncd81op5ti7n6a1/wuxawatevalixofobotuxozaw.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_off0000ddcb.bin
0eedf7f7b3da7dd038b559114827f5fcf6fd4e957ad69499612322e5c16a33f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDCB 18092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010ce3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE3 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000124fa.bin
616948e969da7ff4d6cd9279e6b95353a3fc9085514d08a33c609a794b54d9d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124FA 10716 bytes