Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e4b62f87070fb4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-05-10 07:17:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c4ab34cdf9720ca6df27781182e09b84 SHA-1: e9c79d69595caabb25b0ffeaa02679aa39e8c67c SHA-256: 0e4b62f87070fb4a226ffc07bca11f3ea3c266940d0eb676655c6f45ead4631e
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious and contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, although the document body itself is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual content. No scripts were extracted from this sample, limiting the ability to determine specific execution chains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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) 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.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfa77993832c4ccc8c9f472772bc850d/jakugetowevuvopu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/zodefajov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081fff49c518---79905836358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1sltvjeu7hd7lcu92ftiphb2l7/15694547158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/4490577377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc429660b59b06d7d219a14c442a6887/24236507159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1fc7d3111---noxugafazuroxubigamepupeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a40dd32d58c5130bdb2b3789a25d788e/36632813972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ft078gd7fsauir6564arapnieo/35043940141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b8b051e7c---pazopipelajaravev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6b328cb34---juzowatixegenalalemaforaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608caf9bc9959---22889286749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffc37f4d1f31e1b370f3d1b23522298b/86340688444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=adapter+iphone+android+headsetPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8BC 5004 bytes
SHA-256: 5ebdcb38563d0d9bc9a10e6187293e5c054f47cd79d39bc06bcef57788a1f38c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B8 10788 bytes
SHA-256: d53394373ba7df310cb0a1a9e9513569379d355848444959de9256c5868c0336