Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7aca4f520ba06feb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-08-27 23:54:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c59ce2c73fd8c5415da63f70631d7fbf SHA-1: ac514669fb69c80c626e785bc45c79bdde4fe5f7 SHA-256: 7aca4f520ba06feb684c2f00f3fe7e2d1f3e98a327d41ebc2903693160982f5f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure reinforces the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://lateonsettay-sachs.org/userfiles/file/23271110151.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://transbur.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fikida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b22f0e73a---jinilimorugex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608277a1ec4b9---69473540222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bda59bd1e6---26711978134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memphiscentral1969.com/clients/865565/File/56448830970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/34172284570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5fok6d9lrj12poqj9hagnajfe/vupawosiworatatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fda9337b3f8c7a64e637d08e826f4c77/witanarijagugumemupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/95901267459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/xivigaxisexukidupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieuhocsondong.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tolabodativalasebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be3ousrrhngsv92bja7rie100s/56286171690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/durizafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e7e1d3df2---bowibumimepamifuluminot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608926adb1551---zanosenefob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a0578bff4910857421a853918543415/25021978272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d63c02a0d9f9cefda55fc6f60f029043/38998331794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sambometal.com/dataroom/file/18606402153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/xatakaniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjsolankifoundation.com/fck/imagesfile/70101081598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e835263db---3299600255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obrienbuilders.com/userfiles/file/wetaxugajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdn.eagle.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/82373395341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=convert+scan+document+to+wordPDF 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_off0000c552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC552 16052 bytes
SHA-256: b021da1b4025caf7ceb57d6060e38f1bbdcd8800cb7fbdb58fed74701f270520
font_01_sfnt_off0000eedc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEDC 10676 bytes
SHA-256: cb0864ef7345f0274be477542b4bfaea34502c89ab8b92bb606d0917ce8acc15
font_02_sfnt_off00010779.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10779 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1