Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 321a818dc17928cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-06-12 00:56:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 954f5e782bc50acd52aec064e5ee8f6c SHA-1: 3af885e9cd49c8ac6a4448c18e037295b0f23826 SHA-256: 321a818dc17928cdc0cf1808f7fd5848f4106d8da98517692853e6aac14eb059
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains multiple external URIs and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body, though truncated, suggests a lure related to 'Mankatha torrent download', indicating a likely attempt to trick users into downloading malware. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised CMS uploads further supports a malware distribution or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mankatha+torrent+download PDF link annotation
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/wiwovusafejowuwudevudofaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f33601d8d---95765787818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgt1bsaomole9h77tvondqv2jf/paninirewefimavisavexeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94567270240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4258dce6232684799826f382bf9593b0/zawegelakewalakegadonubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/54824516278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7d2f56cc9---16990467609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2hojpo27rel3a4sruhatcoau7n/24332355254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/95195362069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ec19e1a9ca1e64788b1fbc661ebea87/47132977412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36e0c10a40---lotasijobonanozadelor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ab39c513c19b0531836ecfc3de0f605/zugonuzen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antae.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/68824402882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7bed6ea34f---limifinozosebebinirotum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17dc18461b---35477598741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c149bf243d9---87341534468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a7mp2mbrl8spsi6pk47p5nc1b/8017025289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4B 6408 bytes
SHA-256: ee8573f4b8729d40857cce5123e56842d9f9891846ac9abe07c1bf7dfb0d8435
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD18 4896 bytes
SHA-256: 62e817713959b669a6abdadbd56925624b0a118a6d94ac3c947da9c522b55c7d
font_02_sfnt_off00010dd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD0 4620 bytes
SHA-256: 0b98e50bd66c9f4a043cfb8b625039300d0edd624821b89c15eec2d4ca119ae3
font_03_sfnt_off00011cde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CDE 12124 bytes
SHA-256: 0f97b109a683a8078e265703bdaf052533e0f5d8e32cae0e6c5aff3c719d73e5
font_04_sfnt_off0001465c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1465C 17920 bytes
SHA-256: beb197c5ad7d7f4cd3abceee44aad73c9bb30ae8c5b147a5454e977ae0a429b9
font_05_sfnt_off000161e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161E8 3656 bytes
SHA-256: 0e8e184148173538db3355c26ad662237178f5e7b58b00a07ff24cdda0f2e800