Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80f57439d00c370d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-06-19 21:36:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a3baeb699ec6ccb0d8ee91ded1eab43e SHA-1: be9cb7c4837da608b27182c0691db99a01a9e374 SHA-256: 80f57439d00c370d9c52c6ab6db6b609f0d42037f47d9b80af9b6416bcc5ad1e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to compromised websites, disguised as search results for an academic book. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms on compromised CMS uploads points to an attempt to host and distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b108bf4a1dfea10c4c5f7fe32e9005a1/80596993983.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160995aa04fc99---16349655693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ecb2a4e16---liwamut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52edea699202fc014dc7a39104d98711/kosepinuvipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c337b026fa---78443236037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80f77agjt897gv3oc4ve6btsc5/wuziliwobizatixenewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e629a28780dfcd6cb56241671fd2df4d/91245617379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/94784319941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160891b0271588---wamogisase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099dec041727---kovexor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f78488acd1---81103721158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/42222226645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvav7g2fnl2nf1o6m53nq3840n/wibiwumobiwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b51f3c944---65645214977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fe6607d3a96e4b3f045214dffc4c383/97822027246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-souz.com/userfiles/file/55852278958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walnutcreekguide.com/wysiwygfiles/file/dafabowemobasopupuxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9eba8c324ed8ffb30d68a180d3447b0d/fekurusopozijizofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607720f0c026e---bezunilimetizetokenopira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=vishram+singh+embryology+2nd+edition+pdf+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA66 5676 bytes
SHA-256: 3130cb2991e035f4afab6ba9abeb3fe1f6fcc225ef1657b19ff31d386e5293c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED96 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 0f98272bba8a8c3b88f7004176fb4dd65164326828cb9dd7613e813b5bc26dfe
font_02_sfnt_off0001130c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1130C 16164 bytes
SHA-256: ead7fd593d7f5feef6f283420e9b55f8fa4552f107c64b0063d474dd3355abd8
font_03_sfnt_off00012825.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12825 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333