Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f80e2bd9965651f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-08-18 08:46:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f12439b3033ab3108efef90ade421312 SHA-1: 9dd8bfc2a91163f736525bf3b6dff8ca44bd9584 SHA-256: f80e2bd9965651f3884e9e267faf7bb5d9a9f2cf4075c37708672f6644022c33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination or leverage existing vulnerabilities for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9925

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=exercices+fractions+decimales+cm2+avec+corrig%C3%A9s+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bffec0eb92---54775750012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/gosudufitifodufolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/xuwubelotalawedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/regewadivafetod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke20pva478m5p0jogdgn6qjaa0/46042839891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7600055643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ca80dafd080ff50d583bc860f1505f6/21274673430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/pupibapejawepunebana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714a321c0ec---rikanukadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citrasas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99982141781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamwork-poetschke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ferelitibudimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcos-eff.it/userfiles/files/fufumipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eths1967.org/clients/6/6b/6b000f7c2bca5b3a89f93fde6b54c5e6/File/30091616172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/78243615345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/zipejogifefebaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elminhaj.org/userfiles/file/13522724929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damsindia.org/admin/uploads/file/kafubususazupasirilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e46ab59ad5---65885314917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/zoraxepufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c94e4ca368---6899762594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgocsm.in/userfiles/file/mefarizijokudetelaneso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/3079364351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarpaket.ru/userfiles/file/foretojonobilezuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e99002dcaf---84270173332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56702978420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97cb1014506b6e6dbca6db8f5d9543dd/84885989366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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
    • https://vimeo.com/517593113In 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_off0000dcbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D6 11388 bytes
SHA-256: b883a85416eda7a9974c6d10833db0619a817132fa58dedbf2d11828485e8a00
font_02_sfnt_off00010f46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F46 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 7494b01e6a4d626884f620ab439b4a45c60433e1cdfed4dfb17c09b303ee536f