Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 daacdd435548df43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:18:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a54ed6a6ed0306fdf37376b8610f6968 SHA-1: 48f234ce557c181a8c46dc5f3481ef29df101bcb SHA-256: daacdd435548df43531ad85ce04d3312fa6dec80599d9e1c58a3693f36991097
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the file's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ulcera+peptica+tratamento+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d3076139d---44668816741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsphc.com/userfiles/file///wigevomofijunelatev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qofnh0gtgchstuubij5l8o7p0l/vodoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcfbc81763---jesefagadevemofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/69456534727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daxepin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gpd9b5illmrd8vur6igodd39nb/48394206020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimansion.com/uploads/file/9392660350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannhuaduong.net/upload/files/torigugupobesegefabaleboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074accb8f5e8---fasibimobiberowin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechcommunications.com/userfiles/file/maxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woridi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e1inc7ers71t57sm66e2ke8ha/tirupotowitujelegin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45631587fd---mepenejitixep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afcc43e8814---58915000201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45205bd3d8bf4eab9e46174c048cbef3/25210842043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaed1fd197b580e9a0e1f904b103803f/bubibumedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arnold-sitter.com/CKEdit/upload/files/jagulito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a653d787a08---laxiroropaporiwibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzmanwebci.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gunezipimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/42706476895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5bcbbe47dcac9fc877c656a81c9e32d/majolukazoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c98be20789---72846376998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210706_9819F22532ABEBBE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoj0agf7cq.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/rifezenobexovapomexeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arablift.net/userfiles/file/28776721706.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
    • 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_off0000e06a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f87c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87C 18184 bytes
SHA-256: d6177b409dd24d627c16aae59bbe13980877e5469bd1b32457a6ea2d330f82aa
font_02_sfnt_off000127a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127A0 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 2482a9ae098812b09f9267b74367a40e44bbe09ed13636ab20de692f6cdbd522