Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f80cbb6b371ba6e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 12:24:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 002e31dce67ede8f7710cd976d664020 SHA-1: cec1723daf94ac852bc37106a6c9ea761beeed43 SHA-256: f80cbb6b371ba6e89af719ece7fa1c1d6e5c0c20b0bf53dfb91d73dfd0a99c88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a pattern of directing users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://easternresources.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/418028046.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents/files/fosodibobositara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bzws.zhanyougame.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zovafanutunirifenegaxewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d48555c167c3f47e6722fe2047636da/27636313377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://directopinion.biz/uploads/FCK_files/file/tixisiwimogokekinawod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gupolemiwiduporile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lolawowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373841c2bca---gebuvelurubumexetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70729304051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613142ee8078b---zagunaluvagumivopipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvantindat.com/uploads/2021-09-01/images/files/wisamisatapuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontakt.com/dat/file/19798863616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ba4f97ddb6---giboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/fezajumatolemovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f8c0b3639---2568195838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://downtowncincyhotels.com/core_degree/admin/images/cms_imagesfiles/92320936694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phonphangschool.com/upload/files/55613348371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210923072809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://integrotech.eu/zdjecia/file/rabudirasewasuvoxukowalir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futuralagoparking.eu/userfiles/files/fofoxuzof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanniseneca.eu/userfiles/files/20610799344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imcborivali.org/userfiles/file/buvalaxibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a235077b0ff6ad4c818ac6d05926089/gikuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rassadaspb.com/new/files/file/24105741877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovartea.eu/userfiles/files/suxupepazaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=whatsapp+free+download+apk4funPDF 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_off0000e396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE396 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 127a780dc7fea648edf13724daa1120debc19e6a77c529fe75e90ceac38affa1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB6 18060 bytes
SHA-256: 13bd29a147c4aa8a8f875bcb4b533656cc65c0b6dbcb8087ae413b73118b2248
font_02_sfnt_off00012ab8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1