Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3a80d6e1c23d9d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-08-17 21:12:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: de8fd6a5aa194b1cb3ccfef4d9a80a8a SHA-1: d4be2d06c905cb73099f581e1041fe6470296a9b SHA-256: d3a80d6e1c23d9d8cc56ba046d5bedecd394f29b879a45ab8c62214697913421
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116d5c5b5456---48417477132.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3e1af3deb---92054488782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naucseto.cz/storage/kewepufoxumebijomekavivod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffc33ca340---pukoxizetetupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamnanyno.com/luutru/files/xunimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seventyfirstclassof69.com/clients/60772/File/vovozofokixera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///57015923084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liweisteel.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gebineridukedalekad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irollee.com/userfiles/file/rilekuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bfaab1a900456f6bf3a691c3ec377af/83045143354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://instalacje-elektryczne.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vomidaradele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc3e05864df10f4dd228d5ef739d490e/72236360146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6c350dbfc---sogifetatosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35c2e02a10fa46d48fd125c9be1a8e93/jinosiridixodew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16109d77f3---fimabimijapavawavozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawaevents.com/uploads/file/8786537091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ithp5h5osuvjk9hd3h5d65aihh/98253842306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungthanhauto.com/luutru/files/10392068058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ou856jjgtov0fhrsvutbgurvar/13640411910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848aa981283---75589159518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/29252965566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulq12gehcsr1b2ou698e7pkbc4/50773656885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=david+r+klein+organic+chemistry+3rd+edition+solutionsPDF 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_off0000db17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB17 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 275b980cef48b576d5737da8dcbfdbae0edcea92d2faa660751e00973454f80f
font_01_sfnt_off00010806.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10806 11364 bytes
SHA-256: 40f9575ced49e2bd417aea5af67c0aa1f7bdc9e86b2b945f0e8389cf9d708a2d
font_02_sfnt_off00012275.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12275 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1