Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dafc606cac110cfe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.5 KB Created: 2021-07-27 17:38:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 059750068e899fb13ac7239e4b70221b SHA-1: be86756595a8e41fe80807a350056db32a40305f SHA-256: dafc606cac110cfe7094bd1870da70f698a3b503fb6ad05d0f5a38a19c29136f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and other PDF files, likely intended to manipulate search engine results or lead users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, offering no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dde6702a04410cd6be0998c365c158c/47858736314.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dce8bddd5f---tapakusus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotrusso.it/userfiles/files/54632283639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddc96103985332b314fb2ca1aa371711/61684442261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportingclubalbinia.eu/userfiles/files/17659215522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e6609a76a---siwadigoveriderenadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f756e115675446095b551766c6906f9/wufesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/40621001608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ed4f5e2d8f9dfb50db9dd090fd0a1ad/gusojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30d7df0070---kolezijut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kikiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92102d5ce3---nidakoxexiginefogawugob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/voripefobemizolafukonuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfac52cc6f8---lepimilosuwexugubev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cd1fe8b6e---69992557467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202106file/2021061819064770554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a70a15bf7db---lenufotururuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/viraxuluxejawefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceroki.com/image/files/81085582218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcf9594aa8460327f711a65360f5223a/36031435993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/90031895877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd9f6c0ba9---lolagaxeximize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d5a9defa0---rerinafafadudetiduwolale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/77891816697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c7b444a84bfa54eb99c5a47dd39a32a/zurimegibatipavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=best+weight+workout+for+beginnersPDF 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_off00017a02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17A02 18340 bytes
SHA-256: 8ae4ccb8cda47bf666cbfefdc17653bd6350ea6772ad54a95f93bde5168f2a06
font_01_sfnt_off0001a9f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A9F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001c20c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C20C 10756 bytes
SHA-256: e2a5ac214fcfca5d3e361b78ea734bd3952d30f50997e0c3363c47f679657f92