Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 980c00489840fa89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-07-17 14:35:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 065ce22280c568cdb6f0885845a65655 SHA-1: a0ec189a2f34cecad0a2fa0d1cc2b5d03e00b48a SHA-256: 980c00489840fa89bb72947e7117c5454f1df28d89ab46f9db9c0f37ae4d7fed
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external, potentially malicious, URLs hosted on compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/suribuk.pdf
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed65f02cf86---18078952878.pdf
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/31500878986.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-8/20210508083301965686.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f80daf25c2---60570515167.pdf
    • http://southport1969.com/clients/861680/File/bofise.pdf
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc328547887---61212032811.pdf
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608028a810a69---1256060028.pdf
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/jarepagadevosig.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f71a59997f---14606021282.pdf
    • http://strojsteel.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woxikujuruneloroxapu.pdf
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/9197002430.pdf
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86138909acff8ed6cf16d0400593bd1a/44218577143.pdf
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/vutotubumonibirurerabaf.pdf
    • http://arserwood.com/js/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php/upfiles/file/210622001105079860149xlr.pdf
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bb614431d6a7ad8435f773fba68a170/97861475311.pdf
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/53411736955.pdf
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081095c106f6---xoximali.pdf
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f28078a7534f61640ec54343fc0b7e8f/domulavorasitubowoz.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a172342325d---namovofimumidagiw.pdf
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otgbt2u5q5djdd4jrpqtrh36tl/19639103271.pdf
    • http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/betubiwodemasenufa.pdf
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cee060a16d755b71407289b19a96f99/kufelitoxutabunijewomi.pdf
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a770f1b049b---sexokinaxijagunakelogudiw.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=d+and+g+taxi
    • 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_off00010593.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10593 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011da9.bin
8de9ed2b5e2cb5eec34f601cb9ed6cb530713758b55ba77bb12577859730ca15
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA9 9960 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013391.bin
1e74f3e1a0148e9d199bd0944ec32a22a6260540ba53afa1585fee4e30008e6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13391 19392 bytes