Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80e6aa38ac46525c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.9 KB Created: 2021-05-17 15:18:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e2350f0339f7094950676ee4e0db1773 SHA-1: fd018bc631903766cfb8feed3b74dec52e4b5199 SHA-256: 80e6aa38ac46525cb53b9a9c6aa43ac7059e0ed85a4b82c715360eef62f7875c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create malicious PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/45705520923.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44bjap2fjout27ui6r8pv0ln30/butubaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e6f485f87f---xurukatenowopelabutamef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ar4278mspccu8nbpdvi7gsm27/botexitajewirufukupubewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9e43673ea---pigesowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088eb1e2638b---jogifekawejumowumiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608443a826c42---7044351834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/baviwubobefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5930430f8a5490c1df1197a6a05574e/pagoxozaketapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/jigumatuzejusedisinijipoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/19604155056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/funiguzajexopadigaxafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/csccu9540vgatun3iqu3t95sci/52619583457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b8b0c836c---xitogog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaspoassur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4f13b3cc7c4bef3840ff11edf85c126/8664881553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jvns9lc05a5biorpdgka9ci45v/85140923926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2c7abb733512889fe0986e34306feab/97655511098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/fapuwubemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac408320c4a49309e55d40b55bbd977b/pejon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/75000255939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=uterine+artery+doppler+waveformPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off00012773.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12773 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 53010b2d9f98fc7d99dc63fb5c9cc940e4655370c1b4e5d5e2afd941e874a59e
font_01_sfnt_off00013964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13964 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 6dd2e3546e939e1a8f0a5d849260d9de72d00555de3de8f744ff04df2615f17b
font_02_sfnt_off00016034.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16034 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 31aa257675234f953cb39254c73a0c002637764ec2691c470e0912636c3685cf