Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcabc8eea5760a42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:27:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 12e995bd6da95d9221823b68b3a46b69 SHA-1: 927f6bcefe7af56f6dd79ae27b6c349ccf344f06 SHA-256: dcabc8eea5760a42f486162f906ccb70020448016ea0b3e2f4da0a15d1cccd77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking direct user-facing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/15987878079.pdf
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/95187032835.pdf
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s18tukqta3h7vjat424ipm6hg5/fagemiwetajorixirevivu.pdf
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9074019a9---posevow.pdf
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1nieet2c45be32id2af5ranv4/85881531916.pdf
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jewewet.pdf
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/83902291140.pdf
    • http://hasanmasat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22012625132.pdf
    • http://falconartistmanagement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/susurukodoriwaposalapipuk.pdf
    • http://harckocsik.hu/userfiles/file/jebegoler.pdf
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2vkdumisuuppm7g6qkke427gk/52259985336.pdf
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4mutiqvia1jbq076sveg5lukas/14552335055.pdf
    • https://www.nuyew.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54b2baae9d15dffdb5aa4aa5ff57e4a3/riborepotatabe.pdf
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161193c45d641f---puxagizadizewakirevawo.pdf
    • https://udruga-invalida.hr/files/nalifux.pdf
    • http://geojeoceanhotel.com/userfiles/file/20210824111622.pdf
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/likizodata.pdf
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4c51607a2---xebiruwetofibapizotip.pdf
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/sewulap.pdf
    • https://fishboat.hr/files/95438179944.pdf
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8ff5f67674f328871df7ccced932f0c/51870571211.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicopinto.it/userfiles/files/kopijexa.pdf
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/wimumisukaruvujajivokas.pdf
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfab1bdf53ce0fe317eab718501f095c/53184665828.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=easy+spanish+conversation+questions
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dca7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCA7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4b9.bin
09784aeb081c3615d89f9689556de27925abd455f1c4d4192377a6bc2aaa4be2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B9 18784 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012547.bin
fc2cfce7ba688aee2d3e08068a79bc269affa16eb4e297857863b7bd970bd34f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12547 10836 bytes