Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8ca8848dae3f19f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-07-31 05:56:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1dd0d1fa10f4cf49dee00defc77618b4 SHA-1: 8ae44f6c22f4ebb916497749864a931805f64752 SHA-256: d8ca8848dae3f19f5eb484983ed852717a09d06c99c8173fe24d90072a47af8e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a phishing campaign. The presence of a 'download' button lure and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate malicious intent. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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=age+of+empires+android+offline+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608722e3b2513---pekitagoteduvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidropro.hu/upload/gupanixutufexububifud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a0f3c39c8---76816383557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a27c3db40d---letikijute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609080016dcc0---fubuvijofelebab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petek.biz/resimler/files/temox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b8e28521208284750cb12ecc0d460d7/dawudoxuzifozuzenokon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7ae42cfef---raxebetojigunid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4nluj5t779ur4bgua3hvcthps/giwifoxezevap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e4a221fbb---98638613925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7rg855b0u8k0ul734gkhvd2sec/wamawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/727c5dc314724aaeb17f3033532af6c3/wumonuguzedinowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/samivigojumupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumnicollegedelunion.org/clients/76066/File/welojufuromulepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16073a061c0dde---pebibedakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ec5235308---guvudabijapazemaxiwapeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b4aff192c35edc43718693933c2be05/pemejevupiwuwaxokafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/girit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1a89bt9l3q6nvuu2jb5kv7ooj/16788559348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/wabolizobapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74c10325ffdb33769398a976ea52711e/munavinemumudebebozu.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_off0000ce31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e643.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE643 18124 bytes
SHA-256: 5d54fd92f49c6a56ed4ce88a09e40769cce844294a39cf93d0f492046879ae74
font_02_sfnt_off000112f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112F9 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 7a6202edee64326d284dfc62f5b32301fa8ee7f805e3e300fc5fbfb04c39a420