Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80dfc11369d81566…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-05-24 22:09:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ad769dbeb9c44d1c37bd028ed81dee5a SHA-1: fe03296f9e573b369b09efc0c136b6ec1e0ba709 SHA-256: 80dfc11369d81566eb882205f19f27dca4aa2928ad52b0066c1983c95af49d9b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host further PDF files. These link farms are designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing page or malware download. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with a phishing or trojan delivery campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=transformers+cyberverse+bumblebee+voice PDF link annotation
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8a7011162---wawigodalumujafuzokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbb0009a26---meroxusukemipivesize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7f042d9b1---xafopetesariki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607894c97a757---9257891329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28148622630fbb9b1a6025398edb83b3/3867262209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/zurid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7a549c229---53621012529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094acd84cda2---xuvulusaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f113f05f4---30059516522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf20c32797---tolegorifadenapiwafovolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/su9bh428es93vpgh57depmtkhs/35150604365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedikal-yub.com/uploads/file/bijadebave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/mabemexemuketa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9t39fg3q5kksv3hr2kbudqve6o/petofoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88fe8e3cdf19dc829a345d0109cdfcf0/wodabel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdpu.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1437b21b5913d58789c685b2e0718179/60571892345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9191fb240f1c29567b5e790d8c738fd/kolivog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010ca5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA5 5080 bytes
SHA-256: 3a6bfa3e69f2d24847906aca2589938506f25bd3f5fb62fa3e2a0521655cf4f3
font_01_sfnt_off00011dce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DCE 2060 bytes
SHA-256: f93542dbf11e1b78b0e03947724839818dd350ad06a5f6d49fbf9462215d74ee
font_02_sfnt_off00012775.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12775 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 0ffe1bc90be7151b45664eee553cc2f5ea6fbe5f11974a03f2a9cd9f985d9e1b
font_03_sfnt_off00014d22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D22 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333