Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f89e2f2f5b28c48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-08-19 20:14:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7add475e5d491bb64ff860e9a71e0a47 SHA-1: 0a886c493714a727b1c20fd578a0141b8036538a SHA-256: 2f89e2f2f5b28c4821146068b67ac10120f95e98d55cfce0c9652103e9b989d1
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating it is part of a link farm designed to host malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is intended to trick the user into calling a phone number, likely for a scam. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards malicious intent, possibly to download further payloads or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cafe513169---96700359780.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2935ea957---gobudobamuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elard-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62326611475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd135d141a48aaca92a6ce96866ce1c/befodipana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vobqjbhd7t67ou7shh6bm4g3h3/zemeviwakabokukivanagepop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118442067bc0---34620959114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/83524433609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f56b4ef55---21953753504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a70493e4d08---86539939464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uq4frsv5s34im3ckfsg8opesl4/dapemulidonugonobagawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abb7a9d974---28530165993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53ca7e71bc1ba0fa4ee6cb28c377aaab/voguvipiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/7775966652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b193063356---50546663786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071adf8e57f7---87150247726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-2000.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1643704314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/6842686979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jlgardner.org/home/jlg/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doturisorogunuwipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasivn.com/upload/ck/files/26167425977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8e13bcbca704c0413640d8e47adf58b/86864701116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glenbrooksouth1970.com/clients/1/17/17fc1bd13d5538a69f39d58c869d2fc5/File/25823623827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verimevzabavu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72026256340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruilong-ironwork.com/CKEdit/upload/files/24217639885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/32101538232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+up+feit+smart+bulbsPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/740148382f34e353833175473558e979/nitinifamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d105.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD105 18472 bytes
SHA-256: 82ab886e089df8a95b0650e0790b5d4c571fd697386df957efe8cc5c8b90ba46
font_01_sfnt_off0001014d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1014D 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 84c3fb37eabd639470e4ae8e6bc418152f52fb1029151e6ab3f139200d2e6e6d
font_02_sfnt_off000119d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1