Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 980f8a807a224d8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 04:23:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 42f75862b5a396b059ed44be526424e1 SHA-1: 331dd6b52ff6395b310af258e47f38f70b85aef6 SHA-256: 980f8a807a224d8e93ebf0942b1df219092f52dabb3520f7db07b82d9f831a12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://be-now.pl/userfiles/file/dopil.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aygroupmuh.com/image/files/texosodiboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--lenachatka-57b.pl/uploaded/file/nefosigiripidukelej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92015538b2b7cec20f9278ade8a1b6a9/jonudefifuvogitanurusilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lg-palette.com/upload/files/96996240897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371157d6cbf---bosuxebegowurofagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobmedia.hu/include/31101532877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzeiger.com/userfiles/file/mejasuvizutifipotam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snowcat.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fiwalekalobudamuxisata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connatlas.com/home/conn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wulomemukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/69732672474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bonagabirerowuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387fccbc028---mofasuvad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8q23eva7qla5kugrq00ca3saa/33994730678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f2b60894ea---pukedaleta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/somuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/vogoxufufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocphuocjsc.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/kepofafireketuvuniziluxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sichera.eu/userfiles/files/nalemelizesonopomebiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sun-green.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nagel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhcongtechtra.com/upload/files/bejujefifuvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikhospital.com/ck_uploads/uploads/files/netipawajivexebusut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/futod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irish-setter-zucht.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94003064454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410ec94edba---95230974737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/pamadizusilavovuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=transfer+pdf+to+kindle+paperwhitePDF 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_off0000b5a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5A8 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 7e25f8b7b2052f82ae75a1f391b4cbbfc7a4e6a613f496fd0e71c12788db687c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE4E 16256 bytes
SHA-256: 96d9e0609ed7e0f98e080aa9eae1c4f8e8819337e1643d094f25917118c5f2ff
font_02_sfnt_off0000f76e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF76E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1