Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 deac0ccfb0e397f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:49:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 22442a2dd5d71846e54bee46d3050540 SHA-1: 65243b5631f486823ac4bf5bf79514130137cc35 SHA-256: deac0ccfb0e397f3221e081cbe1cc69614ebd0494a86477c6cabf14666654fbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains associated with link farms or compromised CMS uploads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to obscure the true destination by using disposable hosting and redirectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/zanuraforovevilojipeli.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68fd4c3153---82338688188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hydratrend.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bogarokutiledoxufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8s7ivglr763vkq795s6i74thf0/62859894776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/30268510640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuuhoatudong.com/upload/files/simonududowut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b019b6c56823889a8590dff6fc08b2c/66619672665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb3113f980---6637753341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/linifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb596634a6---99079636491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868843c5a0f---walaripawivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarazzi.eu/userfiles/files/29737395495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wittnebel.dk/file/xezipexowifitabale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2aecd3ec9a---13860269458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/2306094254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettipassarinmarzotto.com/userfiles/files/40083855875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873ed7763f5---1248946489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidadapatidar.com/userfiles/file/pufusididenumonit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/86739460490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71ccc2acb1277b0513547be610888b38/filoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/20533438853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/53108896132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c206ec3109844286952e14818d60cb35/54696321020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/88119021349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/56433026706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebaileyfamilyreunion.com/clients/6/6f/6f45d7e5c9279c15d0bd3a3fa6949618/File/lepatuzekedilajizixib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lidata.eu/files/sukogepasirezufotetopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=12th+commerce+book+pdf+english+mediumPDF 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_off0000f1f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A04 21272 bytes
SHA-256: 805008f2d8f337202a18ac8f00700b102e5962cd57137e884748b9137c4fc873
font_02_sfnt_off000140f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140F4 11312 bytes
SHA-256: b83f1f18a0eebf394b0828fc7669b06b80438b5fbd2410e27577b490c4c655ac