Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11fe9136253b9918…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 17:31:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 86e4e5afb06602791efeee9ddb248b90 SHA-1: 30ce7a36216d347bad164af0a99f7eaebd14d8ef SHA-256: 11fe9136253b9918d162d759759e905ac2281f48029729a3baa8fa102a9452bc
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supported by heuristics identifying the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' lure and callback lure suggests a phishing or scam attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://newcar-rental.com/uploads/files/202109090349199711.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://quatcongnghieput.com/uploads/files/26331754983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apc-algercentre.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69996507873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141a94d8bbd6---79657013689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirtproducties.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafazifuxisep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/70549101879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realfootball.gr/userfiles/file/60138241931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushinamu.com/uploads/files/piguzizovatuzezezes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-audit.com/i/up/file/70823978515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/14414334692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02436cb7cd80198ef090c1bbd136a94a/zisolidabupufidagekuraze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xubezavejugisatodivevoliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qeyeoptical.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85872142267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/89832801346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.q-jin.ne.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siguguzinoguvorefijuxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/ranikaxenenogaserurutemeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huerural.com/uploads/image/files/wixufam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eggtesting.com/admin/uploads/file/tuxozikimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karlschool.org/uploads/files/202109082036097888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windfreeklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/ridajifopezedimewibawam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taemyung.com/data/upload/file/77387355541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56f9jdeg5d72mvf25r4f0ralf4/61947228598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/55708011039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/rutufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=nicky+larson+full+movie+english+subtitlesPDF 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_off0000bfa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFA9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7BB 20856 bytes
SHA-256: 4347e01bdb7a169049dbb917ff6801b7aba4da3a867440536308a2fdbb1176be
font_02_sfnt_off00010de7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE7 11272 bytes
SHA-256: e3de0ff34bf9481b4b5b3d5929f86948ac9b652a7cabb8680bfebc4cccbb7b56