Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15ba9edf63749d32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-08-04 07:27:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: af66b9a3e536050657429d3321bc90c7 SHA-1: b8c84cb89240b57abf920b439df53bc1789ca5db SHA-256: 15ba9edf63749d32cbecc6edb21f0612be5858b934dd8959f87734be10b35270
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document contains a link farm hosted on multiple domains, some of which appear to be compromised or disposable. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier strongly suggests malicious intent, likely involving exploitation or redirection to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://churchofgodinjamaica.org/app/webroot/files/gotukabimuwaxetod.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da5a21c2f1---5593951360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161055a19e765e---fedafojifubijibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/653fb0f2f0598012aa73db97f1989c87/56163606363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/jewujunibinidisowewuganeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/15325308531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motolargo.pl/userfiles/file/wodosofumepesupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proreferee.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/87910558332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cfb95acb36---retituxujopumazolovabowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e829e21a5---98783157298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a06923266b54004d86e05d751104f8d/kadulija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webbsoil.com/home/webb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33038620943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f146cca941a---maralexewifanopar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pk-kuepfer.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62610087793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/25702709817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ccaa99a82---68324052614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhtuyenquang.com/home/maytinhtuy/domains/maytinhtuyenquang.com/public_html/images/file/zobederuwodedagitij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/69056709126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtpokebar.com/uploads/files/51664539829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzstock.com/Upfiles/file/41347419564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-rivetti.it/userfiles/files/41745441829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d657dbdc4---lutuzizojametikexiniguvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/levepumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=ap+bc+caste+listPDF 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_off0000e387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE387 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB9E 10164 bytes
SHA-256: ac7613a37e21d845e1c5a200bc517d5ec6c089e3181a1c62749275688a7ae089
font_02_sfnt_off0001124e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1124E 17676 bytes
SHA-256: 879eba1508c4fbcb6c2e1025f101efea9eb4f7004c5d77efdddabccde5265856