Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80e06f57ffb3caf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-07-16 01:14:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 82a8aa65fab55b853529f9afb4613897 SHA-1: 74f64d0f6354b9474b77dc2b99390385a09b2029 SHA-256: 80e06f57ffb3caf3f8a89be145d030fabb1edad3e942f2eada7298c795fc3b52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious URLs, likely as a first stage in a phishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/sezitedinivarijokugezexix.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarshelter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39966149129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/79214937975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasikampung.info/contents//files/55326525246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cfb910227fe63189b3611b7c020345b/vilajakoxixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55c95e5bbce2b98f355036a95ca17b52/82947210912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3c9e24ee5911b21fa8b574fc203a23d/nerilazulaketedulawuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a9e09bcf52874b90b4cddb932712400/72448185095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0b53e6bf0c9c7b6c5a566670cce9050/86898121596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.ph/app/webroot/img/files/loxabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/53986525564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/64902345393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607148897402b---41656856600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778d59042d0---rowisotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweedehandswikkelaar.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/78589863365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092d191953c6---sovubode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestmanassas.com/uploads/files/54372107030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/lafinowedejitafotuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e579e3714---30111364109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a14bb2aa0ec166b9a3fb66398fb16845/12242033785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ef9d37046---bodunuvodumalakodojadipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b690e531caf---47809586604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608659727c18f---88023739966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/3619531203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=silver+and+white+tabbyPDF 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_off0000e591.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE591 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fda8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA8 10540 bytes
SHA-256: e35ea1b827b6fc9523a86f5b663d8a48263e5af54926081cfb65f3913b6cc33e
font_02_sfnt_off0001159c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1159C 16528 bytes
SHA-256: c16bcc4414b0fdeafa3ecade7d82fb4714136b00e0d43405d448699fa55374b4