Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80e74969da1bb6e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:08:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7f09c08493958cd277bb3c9f823aa78d SHA-1: 3cc5b0d9e0fb64a7e0a9c9e45616df574e8f0988 SHA-256: 80e74969da1bb6e292443a16e3106619c01cca410eb3ea613a691f0dc0647eec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing further analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56ec39191f80cc4c501495c4480d35b3/fodisufelotogerugir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bestpokeya.com/uploads/files/51133971241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/31546832323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharasuwanee.com/sites/default/files/file/silofexezuxuvidufebodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-coeppicus.ch/upload/file/janojefoxoveluxosudipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glttek.com/userfiles/file/kogijopitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukubara.com/zdjecia/file/sajakamebidobilenaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/pivodoledadogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e50e2da65b---20576178269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l98et8or05ori3d43ksi0fbf7d/4831111503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/gixogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/demeduxameso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f464e827a87---jarofizafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/userfiles/file/63107037320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dg3vg5rrgvdecl3vlnnvmj9o19/91206296696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/23935662797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/64733021705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63fd9cce59---99222328758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b54accd590f3ca7b056fda66eef0f35/77341325319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5m-tti.com/uploads/image/files/38291968507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghettaetamionarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/67749131739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7jd3prlkovlql5k9hckdheqbi8/bugazixunanezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab932524b8---suborilimurivuful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gym-rectif.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79308285462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nobody-films.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/13341581348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=inverse+of+conditionalPDF 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_off0000e952.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE952 10488 bytes
SHA-256: b3f20f5264b5921fef2bd69dcb2371ada194fd019f7e4dfa0fb85ef48651a676
font_01_sfnt_off0001014f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1014F 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 7c5e663c341ebf1b318385b4b3ea93c8142e1c27d45029414b5019b0a4a20a31
font_02_sfnt_off00012ce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1