Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80f40924b08c2f5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:29:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: af13529f5e131c4cd2f04b748384b765 SHA-1: 743906d9cb545d860a0b84ffb9bed9f5fc22db88 SHA-256: 80f40924b08c2f5ff1a3e2eae2487783af3d0cb172641f6e6bc497f9ea3d1f02
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious external content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=clone+your+dog PDF link annotation
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/78119022568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b40f1e584---94819128720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d3d861c71c55d6fc73ab87e760d174f/41520191299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ac67b3f85---51731104189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madiagranitosilano.it/userfiles/files/49840833535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079226e096e0---19906566238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/nekemubuvabumomako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb79b920b0e---3006633459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607546d8c5343---63365114042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819f2b3de3e---vafur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/gipexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3db812afb---wubufekewivor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874d42ba683---93725277692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/10788826127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivescuolaguida.it/userfiles/files/kagegoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607942e8974de---38589585628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609650f2bb474---felenesuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/88958723102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52bb815e54e19ba9dd9d42b2e2751e3d/84338823142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800479798f9---xekagikekoleka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiampelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae1bd5d46d5e16c6c24e47081394574b/kopevikaxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourhkg.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/417908669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987ba62982b---86837399452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8c9a7ca480f69707bced1abd14eb403/22830308741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed3336ee7b---58835806656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medlineplus.gov/cloning.htmlIn 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_off0000eea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA7 10148 bytes
SHA-256: 830cf52b0355b922f4a7889b687bb415f55f06fc0d8df019a7b1f97efccb18dd
font_01_sfnt_off0001053d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1053D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D4F 17132 bytes
SHA-256: d4944ef614dee9f95f4b94e41aa332a0c740d8666882c4aafb56ee87a3a48727