Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca035eaf4189001d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:22:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9480e21ff436eed0acaf476aa0967283 SHA-1: 802d7712a80a09c490b9cb0452c1814950dc4dcd SHA-256: ca035eaf4189001d7347c3f4a327b054aa3e158b7827add877cae61c9e1ffd74
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The 'children's magazine pdf download' UTM term indicates a lure to attract users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=children%27s+magazine+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://pierrevillers.fr/mairie_files/file/wemaverawoteme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210917_F6F45070F642723F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ceffb73191---16037778548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202109152320551827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/fajum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sagarexpress.com/userfiles/file/nekinifejoruwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://888chji.com/userfiles/files/wagutoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe7ebc4c1c587faeca0fad4b47078c61/nejawepiveme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/tolanozojufugezetudekowix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hankilfood.com/upfile/files/35112207773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/pulutasepavujodufulegike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/riwipenexuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blekinge.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/nutelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepsima.biz/files/file/palagipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/furoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhongzing.com/uploads/files/202109150722297119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobosgrunt.ru/files/ckfinder/files/jokekaruzananilijegikep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetrafluoro.com/upload/files/basutajufizamoguzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23d216c3ffa11eda563e9518f8c9a872/96483027470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olech-rzeszow.pl/userfiles/file/55508937811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learn-atdi.com/uploads/files/topuxoguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiamberardino.it/userfiles/files/229614215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/bodezaragigovoguxudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineers.info/admin/userfiles/file/neged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ce69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE69 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 6c3bc990f2840ccc546a88658eca9c8aac8344f7440842720aa52f5a8e220c67
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFEE 17964 bytes
SHA-256: 3a3168d3634c811ec85fb9d50d9151f889e56c37ca1105fbac169eb1fa6addad