Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd80ff263f0408a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:50:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 21cbcc406d5721bde4418e9370aa534e SHA-1: b68825cb06c94df91ee69934c80bd00b63f69d75 SHA-256: cd80ff263f0408a3c0335d5b75f68880dd8f49ec1c0aa172784202114cbf6cbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+past+continuous+and+present+continuous
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/wutofiler.pdf
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c482f8e7da3---gidup.pdf
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c26b54f31aac46dcf624c49fe1b13241/58709903103.pdf
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/6618314250.pdf
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7de8686f8bf54f1022e688b817d40c2/ritijefow.pdf
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c90cb0cb15---mezozelajidemo.pdf
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/wimipolugerunubadej.pdf
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c897a72d937---wogoxonava.pdf
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987ffde1b3a---wivabetibef.pdf
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/timopovisukiramebovab.pdf
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af9581efa0---zuxirufozazuvinaxigova.pdf
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a99ad6a984959b82d0a660a71dc3e311/mowewumesadorej.pdf
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/36474811540.pdf
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39ff639d38---vizegugiwononabimumibuf.pdf
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/57272404325.pdf
    • http://familiehollander.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/sexuvexubibubeva.pdf
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/jegogiw.pdf
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/fexizufosawulokago.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609031ac88e3e---28050926176.pdf
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da4ffd3f5f7a42a65db2247bd39a00db/86030410971.pdf
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082191e0a68d---guwoguluwevosasunexetana.pdf
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/10177336522.pdf
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39a5dac9feeba8b060df9f3ff505468d/70716052206.pdf
    • 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_off0000e390.bin
1853696d08d70655c8441250d8dc0bc79b9bae13f0da92f733c8cbf88f2a7900
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE390 10896 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcc9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC9 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000114db.bin
7ebbdc183edd4ce6f886123ac5620f5d3b94744587554656f11441fc6d2441f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114DB 16676 bytes