Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ca3346856dca330…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:26:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f1df9111ead7070f5584745d87f9fc8d SHA-1: 94aa56cb96df0518c79aa53a58cd8e076a674377 SHA-256: 8ca3346856dca330a5b786ae85b383bbea33bf7eacf931524683b768b1c3e324
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, likely serving as a lure for callback phishing or tech-support scams. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous suspicious URLs and the ML/AV detections strongly suggest a malicious intent to deceive the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1db8510242---86229698863.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://falegnameriacastiglione.it/userfiles/files/99460130680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/21804265596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultingexpert.eu/fckeditor/userfiles/file/jepuretipubalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d283379afe---28964231738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundaia.ru/userfiles/file/xowokufofugudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasaitogo.com/uploads/files/mulodexorijema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817a24109d9---voxekejifugurixera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiostocchi.eu/userfiles/files/75998272263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remobudostol.pl/pliki/65211419985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117f31e36d3b---51676477359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087051796ac9---vizufumozezonumovuvol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidsslot.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89953846786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609acea203956---63981016160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbe345554db6518446d638f1bdfc18b3/57749291971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/11792971931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guclupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/39727422969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89684534685b85dd1acf677fc3d07f2e/bajimudasanafalukaguwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/51043865196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8p7a2ftspcupja8rq7hda0flma/gagef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811aabe246e---87532095556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/puzabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/venipisokadit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0rud0ri29eeqsntctmvkfln2u4/27630715845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushi.com/uploads/files/79043382220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aicsmindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gifekozarerifusovapipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=what+bright+star+is+in+the+eastern+sky+tonightPDF 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_off0000bba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBA3 15248 bytes
SHA-256: 4da6dc75364c42a874626f604f361907a5f729ebd702b19b85c011e0d12a8832
font_01_sfnt_off0000e213.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE213 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA2A 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 004a170b11e6413bd5e6af4122a6e70f664f9473e588bf0e63a27e5a80c42d5b