Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80dffc7111889b17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-27 20:34:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1c0c91bff55aed73eef56f4d3f2c5d25 SHA-1: 73acae5021adb9a0c361b5284f97408a9d688a81 SHA-256: 80dffc7111889b1710be1d786308d10cee02177b75c04c5c37a04f9fc71db2c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or SEO manipulation. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure itself indicate potential exploitation for client execution, possibly involving JavaScript, to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/glpi3f1efc13omfbhr2n7oruc5/16059981864.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607217ebddc37---25556595841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aa98cb10c2b15e509d13f965200f6bf/pijuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/zefufininufisusom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2p6qgr1oercg671dk2vbidk6a/bivujufujirirozep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a07313a6d3f---49364023373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/lidisugiwototi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd2df9d86e---zivomatajarepudekidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/213757056bc76a6a0b0ef834b7d21f7d/18482116609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27088a0b2f4dc9cd7120e307e9f8b754/vogeviza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d23dcea26e66a4b2cdcf3dbd7faca5d/17547240961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a447f988e38---kimaveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c8d274051---mewaganazajedomazug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7dec6486ae---27741498065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/zopina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cz/upload/fulavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62hfmdjrndg15k73j1hso3rfpk/77936140076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b4ef1e9ea---bopuvozelulosimane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/evh30kohmk4bd201n3t2nrp6gk/83021984523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9d24f17dc---puxosudafeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tinujilode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogologistics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liwabovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locthanhroyal.com/upload/files/17593518979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=advantages+of+qualitative+research+design+pdfPDF 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_off0000fcd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCD3 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 16edba9a69d61094f3a2cdce3bf3ed5de8b955b7a4154de5670f860b8c4cb22d
font_01_sfnt_off00011683.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11683 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E95 16676 bytes
SHA-256: 4988cf939af41da4181d2b19a638f4420b4aacc0a8dee3f94f5e54668a786c0f