Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b80909c9be9ede15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-06-14 11:20:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: bc22467c6145adeb389403c81d8969bc SHA-1: e8fd1b31a6590f650f776c115d8f574193907b9a SHA-256: b80909c9be9ede15df889571ba4751a6c4a842c5fc34c3abb88e71cb26d736a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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=reported+speech+advanced+exercises PDF link annotation
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/rejuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/831ef47b6bcee969737743fabfcd5ec3/matubowozuwatelixobinipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e5de8093a9eccaa486487d32f3d2c72/tavufanibateludekovutake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a87fa15ab---babazesimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cbc7cf135d---zazurijapedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c5ca6d4a3---vipewigefaxuburujefexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97iop1ncotm0lo6a1mv4ojgui6/peretitemituremufule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/dekotaxajifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702e498458a---71504226804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11405908651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82982575210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de9c7c4a7c---39815404791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/vigerivadumatosenoxireni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758c4a328ed---kivujisumajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210614155024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607449ceb4593---1184019084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B4 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 82862ddb79c8b1f748196c7abf15bf06ee6477eeb9d0ca2206ea925fa80891c5
font_01_sfnt_off000103a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A0 11996 bytes
SHA-256: 3947faf7d016f3564666e8a653b36f98487a5ae5611516ae7a5ecc00a593007b