Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80e1f118e65adb83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 21:23:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 98412cb0d0574ed25fe423345162f1e4 SHA-1: ff28e8caae51e76b2e7d2627c34d616c051b1f4a SHA-256: 80e1f118e65adb832e3e8892b1d0ad26b5e70fe502005f9fb2c640c0280d9dcc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 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 WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through these links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dagboek+app+android+gratis PDF link annotation
    • http://logicparcel.net/uploadsEditorfile/730129612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132fe12a1ac9---8283537613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chilegastronomia.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/83702008385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/50844637200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bijudupese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fc5baf02f4---17520891975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388d5e88ce8---68187772887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/fokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilenmr.com/files/files/51211560586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64a262fd43ef304be988574801e9f001/58129449905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bbcf5dfe9---10745916568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premo.at/userfiles/file/76201065175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettocecinacuore.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/sitonufifaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonellascarpittadesigner.it/userfiles/files/47386626645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyc.cz/pictures/clanky/files/xegabip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galantemontagnana.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kakesirinonemakudakep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134834919024---rajuxevunirimiton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sperrincaravans.com/images/file/16762673241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aa5dc50a9b003a7037ad9ca531f38de/pizuviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66818816489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kifaruvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/saxerudaxifagiwedejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasavar.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lapugegukofozupiwodog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pfmconsulting.org/survey/userfiles/files/66554775484.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_off0000b545.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB545 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD5C 10756 bytes
SHA-256: e82b5b6e1a0aec438d3ffe659fb5ada5710cae7bbf8be1c9bba3894abc76e46d
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5CF 14944 bytes
SHA-256: e6a7bfd62a957c5f4c7de90138f744cbfbb0df757122a191e09109b4aaee980b