Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ad0c47f2dce4f8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:17:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6169d0ddb7d3381c0e469ddd388ecb5b SHA-1: b480e96472353d3605cb0aa5618bfef17b016e39 SHA-256: 0ad0c47f2dce4f8fc3e48e84d8f6592e1edc80ff65120105c948edf17d6e7df9
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The ML classifier and PDF heuristics strongly indicate maliciousness, with multiple findings pointing to link farms hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the 'callback lure' heuristic suggest a phishing or scam attempt. The primary goal appears to be directing users to download further malicious content from compromised domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://group-anons.ru/userfiles/files/94868323791.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdd74b74c9---58408531505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapacargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5483962296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/14947449391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/warinisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garant-fond.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/files/19277296257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607190c0e8c5b---vebonelip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608efba7193d7---50533158594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canigrup.com/userfiles/file/59664279734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/kipolowejukobetusimaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catgarner.com/clients/873270/File/1403744515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drsoleimani.ir/userfiles/file/tuxipotonapur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2c5519937682d10f64db664220e9c08/92876976010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59df9b6ea988f7755734deb44d3fb0f7/suwopejuwalanumusizevak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ef525fd40---faxadesavozojenigexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c028d49e18d---24676917616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taxukilikovazurelarebix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qrgu9kkk857m5n1npl6o1rvo8p/busugatupurugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rymwid-training.com/userfiles/file/jinixolapasokaniso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124241fd8093---18401290991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scanclean.bg/upload/ckfinder/files/sigakigokosepog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2016montemayorreunion.com/clients/e/e5/e530e98a7ee505477716bae2fe71cdef/File/1095121491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/xivedodisenujaratena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=visonic+powermax+instruction+manualPDF 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_off0000dbfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBFD 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 99ed277a377c9a5deaa61b290c32e60cd6fbb7986e3bab403fbf653e1d60be85
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4ED 18780 bytes
SHA-256: 24f9287aee39bff210b5a87a5fc8ab9f2606d709a91445787839cfbf3385cccf
font_02_sfnt_off00012632.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12632 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1