Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e80c84b4bd8ce46f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:41:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b6fc16f2c83b95278634e0d8a754dc03 SHA-1: b6cc4bdadcbfffac89fc9150e9cd0f8dd4a11cd5 SHA-256: e80c84b4bd8ce46fdfd900befcaa20a4bfe9e1d0e5e5e36fb99b97a678d383ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f288552a19f1e4c29ba82320bb63274a/sivoxim.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021080903461964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.net/userfiles/file/37308445772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0988aff1823e9076d185c3c0835847d/nesiwufisidinuboxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/703c74299c97e36db5a0c18be8f537f0/totugajoxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a18ac3bb0d---73767537345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://censcakmu.org/board/file/files/81435166155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/nisovulalurojevegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210715_5D4AA20C065749FC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4d9los376a5e44vqbjp15e4i0/jodedoxolusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/56008262414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turksebruiloften.nl/userfiles/file/98314069341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/rilejiwuvuzugerego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/bawaveluwenuvawok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a074c4db49dfc8fb98d5a80d0082cbbd/35988747075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c9d43b287---lijirevawamepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609905ac82057---rokidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40b846f58d2c0d7d6e6c867a2617088a/34783616384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c7c3290da0---puvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5d365abb49---ganigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a643f23eb68---81249242284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078310d4349b---53740824218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htcpost.vn/vietpost.vn/img_content/file/pubupikazed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4e5f31368---dezazipuxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-eria.pl/mandarynka/pliki/files/82230985063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=solving+linear+equations+kuta+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_off0000d655.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD655 11152 bytes
SHA-256: c95632767bec7721c373d8ff066ecc435a6a5d17d7e799d256ec4fb2d37f7741
font_01_sfnt_off0000f006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF006 18444 bytes
SHA-256: 8642f2ca2fb27756822d8129712a53698f832bb78162d60e53b265c7910f39e5
font_02_sfnt_off00011fdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1