Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f80491bc5bb6a3a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-08-31 21:05:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0d06e2929b5ee3dc9c42347c65b4da2f SHA-1: a14441bd5266af407d01b7114343e7f8da7c1296 SHA-256: f80491bc5bb6a3a36ee8e90821993a183e3ee4b27f25306ab7ead09418ffb2c8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to execute malicious actions or redirect the user. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. This pattern is consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://bdsductri.com/upload/files/16946868565.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f73b33215c4---kutalumaloxarunalemaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e18e65573---jufedigevurubapetaroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ceb970a5f---lufimovebagubovirasuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/597352792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a051be5c5f0---zagividebiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinhwajudan.com/userData/board/file/72554916809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/ziruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607183692e17b---womofiwutimudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608179990aaed---seselejexejisiwevowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rke3pf1kmgnoj6o0gdvto8bust/xajiribexegafevoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/40596191118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speed-r.com/js/upload/files/83995459597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/39669350726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5b20f6c0c1---13688387369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaskad-74.ru/images/uploads/kowufokesolugewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3b9c8d8717731063f7a044a4b7fb6f1/ditufumivewirikuvebipogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36171019257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aydin-elektrik.com/resimler/files/4139845608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/38830583373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c445185853b4b1c58f6f9a0f89de420/38810013617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicklason.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoduwuzebitifalomuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=online+admission+1st+year+2020PDF 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_off0000ef3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10751 18076 bytes
SHA-256: 5d7042171c23aa3679e68986fec8e358f7f8c53d68ddf44d31d9ba20e21668ce
font_02_sfnt_off00013625.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13625 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 4d80768f01ac5cbd0cebf4d15bf6f1e23dbcfea9001a78844de982032d814da7