Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b80bf8e41a9a6175…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-07-31 00:01:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 9167378f030f46c6a9a71f90d6f0989a SHA-1: 9c742b1c695eca46f1bbee692e362f28de346318 SHA-256: b80bf8e41a9a6175fb2908c8bdaf45721b412cbb7075a0dbd842e0163bbac308
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting the document is designed to host and distribute malicious files. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085231f45831---vabir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87dbf19eb7---19616602958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c409dccdb---26325618593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://service-panev.com/userfiles/dokajomibibifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/vuzonatex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b80850cb579ed3873804083c2d23ba03/nivudutuwimudesituj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderbestwings.com/uploads/files/44514871813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsong.vn/uploads/files/55973117129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ba0341e42---zesomogipipinetojiles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deitratech.com/userfiles/file/momuguto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cc02aabd5ca15a33e4e0d554d64c88e/kavajumelikodumifukedulag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/506e5sgmcrsj23rtnql8dovbo8/damirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/79843177562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbd4hqeh2jp6bgneju747oe27k/givonalekowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/fapinib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcdanielz.eu/files/file/49506747790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/jedawudoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/kowogudijubazidoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bmi8odpmura6iovla9g2mbg3g/96199062392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8864404ea---fobevosedajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeeing.com/userfiles/files/wibavijafar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9ca8f093b---61326031838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tq4f5if4jk6dvk6g16tcfn3mp4/56869678464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/13813557085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e953d1eb1de---pogiwudepevoralututodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=comentario+de+genesis+hernandes+dias+lopes+pdfPDF 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_off0000d12f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD12F 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 8dbd14630f5df5aea1b183c9e71a5c5c859220d92129f6b22eccc9b93c645bb0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA35 18276 bytes
SHA-256: 1cd4978eb0297c4d420a5092bbfbdce1f45b885d596feeb8dc933029ddba64dc
font_02_sfnt_off00011770.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11770 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1