Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80e021e2238cf5a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-08-17 10:37:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1df7f6231488642841d19bf99c268ee7 SHA-1: 71956f1994414197df1802b2432d6d6bd02c254f SHA-256: 80e021e2238cf5a1aa9b10b3f0797895398691c64f2862eed3c7644e10c35c4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' confirms the nature of the URLs as a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+file+elementary+student%27s+book+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/dagaxuvexalazuparofiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/totez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santchavarabed.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaxogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/zaxawasub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/wotuxidurafuviroxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8veespj32ne2p5p36htnlb8gog/88760899051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfa8ea3d39---wojaxiruzoragupigosajik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogcdc.org/uploads/ck_upload/files/wunakobinefudibopaxonifut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatacorp.com/upload/files/vafujigatugagevavakirexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimatyzacjaradom.pl/userfiles/file/megokejutubidux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f461aa68b---luzewedizapoporokoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cspll0ld7bg88eaji5q9a59j3q/22655945153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/379cbae7c40a612a9fc9f3f5171595ed/91759159563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc9f80c1ca---zifimufawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608adcb923aaa---fomamexisikukebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mekenojapopafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.com/images/file/51799666095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/740cc6863056b15761d2f863af4b6719/raxogefumuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/63746032568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madame-tina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96619752505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyline64reunion.com/clients/e/ec/ec378541aa9b73e2b99de5ca5545ec21/File/fufigizat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/fufamojuluneten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ead89d5ef0ab0fd578b19529dfcdeb7c/mutadanafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160aeb657055af---6362125831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c1dd7f786---51198130109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b2d3297f3ca5a11b54ff14280683c09/53134289716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.ie/images/uploads/file/38290488849.pdfIn 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://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_off0000c4e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4E9 15672 bytes
SHA-256: 7431c6d23972eea569904fdaa4b4bf8d6bea495713e92adbbaeacb04da036463
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED3D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010554.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10554 11496 bytes
SHA-256: 7124c781df4c2d50504436c1a76d081e13151a6d94752eb0adeb347e926dad49