Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bd5353824543823…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 01:14:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7d0a6b38edd456211bbd22883d6b4782 SHA-1: 2466ca6e0d2cd86db1863af6effc9a85bc153b34 SHA-256: 0bd53538245438237de210d1253e38bb312533a2a2f0afc47f7382d54e59e66e
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's part of a phishing or spam campaign. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick the user into calling a phone number, a common tactic in tech-support scams and callback phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

Heuristics 6

  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c2872850ba6012fd43fa8e1b49d456d/52413865473.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9rfe5ud4fd662t80jkh3i0cl9k/39056396823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/9818561938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070970f4c874---lokosotazemine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tg3f6uae396d3ov75ltmsm8uc7/48476300248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/52166527847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/90842470187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1624358751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33s54hesel8gl9bn5o1bq6dgaj/pilefewovunijejivukidizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a829ea747c8---95441552253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/52717819453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ef6447563---liwuvunogimikirexerekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/bigawuposepuripexefes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlkscholarshipsmilwaukee.org/clients/f/f0/f021f13c5c598389be7e913a1ae626ff/File/32982339990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.come/file/tebenubesera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fdca1b07a---kideroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owv-sad.de/userfiles/files/paferutulawumidomenapad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084396185896---bofipedusokuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/64792584290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089afa1470f3---67285291974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b984caef1d6---52734061691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teerosy.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/fixejazurisul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d1bc4522f---rozuzevefezenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/11159279610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1930ade492117284474d746c20daff8/21946662688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=white+discharge+after+spaying+dogPDF 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_off00010f9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9C 17832 bytes
SHA-256: 3f800d941e620e2747c3e5360ff7361b7d18764300b861897678bc9803bca588
font_01_sfnt_off00013e26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001563d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1563D 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 6e872291c1926ee6024c02d07fa76cf77a310f11c6c81f6bf53b10b24aa850f1