Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca2ad96f1600d2b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:24:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a6996edd83da98574e40695d56e768b1 SHA-1: 7c9d50989ed60411eb6832576b4e7d5945edb26a SHA-256: ca2ad96f1600d2b70c55795498168dce4612289e0517e173a5a831e81c39ee7e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. The document appears to be a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to various PDF files. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is intended to trick users into calling a phone number, a common tactic in phishing and tech-support scams. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://archgeo-leszno.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/zivupomixon.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/sinunofofado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrb8ivmiq0dim6b7qspjg7dur3/56083039181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/30141091817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e48f7664c1270dca8d2beef639e650f0/54778964086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e89c99ddfa---22459265956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a10e7n85r7jca79aucsc2b1a2/votip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isotope3.pm-ural.com/uploads/files/58729684913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.temaricerca.com/entry2013/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54710525717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecieldesandes.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11231548725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e884c34cb29---jumonedarakufuxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/ximovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--d1achljw0b.xn--p1ai/content/upload/59370612581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723564bf43a---80565925451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab41d72a19c---tujumikogefukopid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ccdd5bf78511d373ee4a3c53af9ad0f/werozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04fa87528d2ea13a62b4a78012ce6f2f/fofamaxavorasusisadijeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k76u68p20lve2mt306i1iol673/zozute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb5676fc8cb34556a074b5f80fb03e33/98784202041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qlue830na1ekbvqvdn56oo1l6k/42177999347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanthueviet.vn/img_data/files/wikapalivutoweseme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.ch/upload/dawotawisadivivugefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=knowledge+process+outsourcing+meaningPDF 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_off0001009b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1009B 11032 bytes
SHA-256: b9490d7445d6937ace13660b00933f7d589bd96e9bf26554ee6e43a054bbde42
font_01_sfnt_off00011a17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A17 18440 bytes
SHA-256: e455754ddf98299eabdb8d1df55d1a1a4e72126956b80b5ea8e19a001e28524e
font_02_sfnt_off000149c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1