Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c986f6cd6a6df65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-22 00:03:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 15a6a802da20f8d58e1485af9b151f66 SHA-1: 045d335c5ab8a2460fc4e9f38452f0e8e1bc5a6a SHA-256: 8c986f6cd6a6df659cee5cdcee4a4097074f98dbae10b72a8168e7c8be69cbef
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, indicated by heuristics suggesting it's a fake invoice and contains a visual download button. Multiple embedded URLs point to potentially compromised WordPress sites, likely hosting a second-stage payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba3c246384733f6ab908709728b4787d/30718174669.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/vusumemigapexadus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkiwicafe.com/uploads/files/kodasobibanetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607908daefac7---pisexobizoviwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7bb107a9dd---2624264011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f544f3b471d---rafesuzabab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16d2fef9da---8671220640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com//fck_files/file/95670346892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd0693f4be---80087250402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b549c88bd2e908e0aeb17c9da6cc6261/woxenajutisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkdpv321uvvm9g10pca75u0sda/9222038332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kardelendalgicpompa.com/uploadfiles/file/bagozujexeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paglialonga.it/userfiles/files/leruwuwazugituxutemeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f28b84a60---namorukutopuweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/901dd835c45103c46ab1f32a041aa8b1/98817713993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1543c724e665530d554eb31e7f0ee25/75733774707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a86e38a818f7ed21e7de96adcf8f55c8/56305730396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860e4ecfccd---3891164102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araonline.hu/uploads/file/45301771400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7649d5b8175f6d0f7d3116779c389601/11347605803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alibabaoman.com/basefile/alibabaomancom/files/vakarulomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=gst+act+2017+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000eaca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEACA 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 555e5a6cd7fac493c7de106ade09b5cc2fcaa59f79eba820048bb26027e9e174
font_01_sfnt_off000103f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C09 17140 bytes
SHA-256: a264ab0440d7c026bad460eae71f07ea4bb8ae24c88e5f2a49f19eb342679d88