Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dca015194adeb975…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 19:05:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f020cee4b8b441c8fe3bcdd0a4e194bb SHA-1: b460858504936c0793131e4a5b2074c52c35d353 SHA-256: dca015194adeb975538b4ac6131d5b5e4aa52fd27cab899e51fda83668627ac9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, designed to redirect users to further malicious content. The presence of a visual download button lure reinforces the deceptive nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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.
  • 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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cricket+19+ppsspp PDF link annotation
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/gorofutopiluzubidubebavoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koslita.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fukowiraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136cf0ab72d6---buvegotozolikibajirezorex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frickcontrols.com/uploads/files/32656459632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szintai.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xugolodilivufogeloto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/difibuluxowarimidatojov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scout-educationguide.com/userfiles/file/fibewetanazesigoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62526285440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/61094847798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rts-wm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62667475011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klubbelgickychobrov.sk/editor_uploads/files/mixitagezopovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161428865a6b9b---64643919937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/83891587221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/xiguvinun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riviera.az/userfiles/file/87871545403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f98cecfedd5503f296e13e913950c92/wodobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpt-mh.com/uploads/news/files/46852478080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockyhotelsgroup.com/uploaded/files/88756577896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/87016726503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holdemigny.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wasexoxepusofizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.florentmaussion.net/userfiles/File/40794225971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/65868141938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/69220944157.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_off0000d66c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD66C 18176 bytes
SHA-256: 75f9aa09895ae24e3b4a49f351282dc678afa463ce3f5009197a40e3b0f4264e
font_01_sfnt_off000105b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011dc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DC9 10276 bytes
SHA-256: da537b8273851f91bd196409778ab8f7242d47fa89f09920f646c1d9dd070a30