Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80e46e60e9179467…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 18:09:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fd072052ef1d62e2a047fb2f581bcf5a SHA-1: 3574595295d241d7db5ea20a2de74ec82d1fe93f SHA-256: 80e46e60e9179467f3833f9bf9c784cbf8dc9cd4c28a1270f679346fc7f1b5a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attack. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://krzeptowski.pl/file/3672665864.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c95e99e7d3---dumapalopokusozelejaxi.pdf
    • http://ustunongel.com/image/files/26272096392.pdf
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210518184556.pdf
    • http://edu-soft.ru/site/htmlimages/file/57141741670.pdf
    • https://satbietthu.com/luutru/files/33435214962.pdf
    • https://studiorampinelli.com/file/gatebupanoxegidinoji.pdf
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4050a1c396---58490473171.pdf
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/puroduxadisaxabodaninese.pdf
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920fa6c19ff---wivitadiboxador.pdf
    • https://www.e-oswiata.olesnica.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97188575872.pdf
    • https://fiscalonline.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/lonuxudifuz.pdf
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g41arfetf6mtvim46g6e1hvkbs/zaminad.pdf
    • http://shangrilayunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40956240761.pdf
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb52a4d64c---42176129056.pdf
    • https://eetravel.net/file/mefezolafegibawolinozu.pdf
    • http://tccsrl.org/userfiles/files/46983338408.pdf
    • http://studiophotosfashion.it/userfiles/files/14857318748.pdf
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c0c553b7e8221b9419287ee81066db5/60196146591.pdf
    • http://upservice.expert/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27157995468.pdf
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/9902651240.pdf
    • https://maintogelonline2.org/contents//files/55627964320.pdf
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161218580d6af2---maxuvikazokuwewuxorujob.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=4+quadrant+coordinate+grid+worksheets
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d591.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD591 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eda3.bin
29bde2ccf8d14336051cca58ecd9dd84e45748214d82c447010f3da6a1b1a18b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA3 17540 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b10.bin
c3d06df5a546144ad143cbff0a02592dd75f071739e7d5724118e7c48db2f2f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B10 11008 bytes