Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dacc95cf0ee8b4e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.8 KB Created: 2021-08-20 15:55:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ff31bc36de17f0eb27861333bd8c64e3 SHA-1: 7b6b2cf7792e9014726119181ac9e7a740a03b85 SHA-256: dacc95cf0ee8b4e8ac6747167b681837c134b8ec41b2b5091b571b903fb0c305
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload is being distributed through these links. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://horgaszvelem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xipovosireva.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hzdshg.com/images/upload/File/60723539508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinocelltech.com/filespath/files/20210815025759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dnsiiqljsfu2i5hpopvd294g2/jajerarolowobularokobot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lufty.cz/UserFiles/files/mekovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afc68b96b3---8962042807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cobaltinc.org/userfiles/file/21356661648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec412e39a71---larekapuxuwixaroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sloepverhuur-debiesbosch.nl/upload/files/18300380847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7024eea6766abd54913004943d7ae94e/39170407784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrraolvrgr0rdecup6277gc566/rigevak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af48358e49f---13346751031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928b140accf---vopupokiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b710f1231fb---sulixidep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laptopserwis.com/app/webroot/media/files/sivemafinezugamebusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/kuvogewafepunaxexew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23ab970d560bc96668fa10a73b25b055/58328930238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vu4pvq6lt0r2jjbgt1it91f6j/68264286832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086daa49419a---35859096219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/73634696145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ddf2b497db81a2be47450c77c533e86/1128353275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1cf502706---98364289372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-communications.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuvevagefona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfh-consulting.com/userfiles/file/suvilukevimaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f95168170914b280c7ef0e419acaeb2/38241082437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ejemplo+y+conclusiones+del+modelo+de+cambio+planeado+de+faria+melloPDF 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_off00013eb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EB0 18560 bytes
SHA-256: 255ad75976500c7af967e25d3ea4376f72563e1d73e1876f88f59e55060d1c3c
font_01_sfnt_off00016e23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001863a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1863A 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 4e2743ffe49d7bf0085352744fa20b76afb34e09c671d742c7b5fb3fcb17db07