Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcaa58aa3202d8ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:05:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3ab85c85ca7dea0d2a94bc130f9e4d71 SHA-1: 61c5a541d2a0eff3e7eb6688717270665a56c6bc SHA-256: dcaa58aa3202d8eaa5eea4a401b4172697a2b8744f6130b152ab6549a65cc7e6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or credential harvesting campaign. The presence of invoice or payment language further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://cakesandcupcakes.net/userfiles/files/8907105713.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a433e509ce8026908dcd3c284629585e/78520089940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2df0f5b1cf2278866492f849ba94da59/96830145796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blnk.eu/userfiles/files/jotewulitazokolegepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tumujerrusa.com/userfiles/3042841897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/ladaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maharajganjtimes.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/88955852347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c589a70dd7c---57644450754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachnguyenvancu.com/Images_upload/files/23926481574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/87929621280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0d1b79e58---8470691430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/25091995188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9bb80a1a10---95339381203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cepatdaftargroup2.com/contents/files/38686552489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsebolivia.org/userfiles/file/gasojipedibepitulopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyxedayhang.com/userfiles/files/48005692079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lumd6oac83th8abc3437bgqnn/34078578980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e81542h335oo8gl4tvf786vnjo/63934024041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/070d28298cbf0d4bbea271f8e72c2bce/nadovaxowivadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4ea882981---99576120904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/43775921748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saikunghouse.hk/userfiles/14668448285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734e9e0c7df---zozisob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lrm.mcdonalds.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78471043564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bg819r0c0k5g34qfc6lm8o50e3/vazudevadeleraror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+of+working+capital+management+pdfPDF 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_off0000f6a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010eb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB9 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 970460d0687638801d39cdda206cbc27435f76a433cb0eaccd339941f5023b38
font_02_sfnt_off00012830.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12830 19344 bytes
SHA-256: 42f2ee3839ea628f19dadb00aac3468f1c343c0c76fad9096cbc7eb7bf9fb78c