Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dccfd06dfb7875f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 18:22:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 50fa4db894009a7c0ba8bb26e6b22e63 SHA-1: 63fcc303bd55cb7d5e5c30fb03c59ef82b4fdf47 SHA-256: dccfd06dfb7875f33bba053db5bb0b92564400f5086934bca9a5f6793b65e787
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to host malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845ae496a57---95832923668.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/fasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/lepagaxezalujimotoluwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b455c5e301e---86039592698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9c0fa7c94---tarufubikekawasidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32de34b9ce---vibupojuderedejefatowiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceed2689722c99041363c6a384cf8acd/mujinesukukuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087edb57fa4d---16042088147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/purevanegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730732f15cb---mizogixafamaludijoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/rojizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/7912263364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d26cf90a71b---4347465188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commsoft.nu/demo/ktb/wsmbilder/files/18085867355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/tesupubini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/85910107302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/xuzari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h97fmd1866udu91k80kmcfsvc6/44186712585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/pobobole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13cb49f2a89198c61b85cb12be1314ab/97153571655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/xexeboxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f014623e43710f0bb5bcd052e8152a47/gelamunigejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775ce0aeeed---49474490125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/4368442036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210611202117_1509096500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+convert+document+into+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_off0000c2ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dae1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE1 10396 bytes
SHA-256: e5c83cbf3356e158579609b40d2f10d13a9cf570b0c61712fdbd8f7b8c40100f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF259 16548 bytes
SHA-256: ed1d8e92812115ac638d580ef0a95689ac1fb213ab25ed3897c219788dce1ad3