Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 517618850fa7aa83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:49:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e555bea96e31b982e199599e47f196ee SHA-1: be8f4b227735ba0db00888f284157c463fd7af52 SHA-256: 517618850fa7aa83dbf40fcccb47f728ad75bab965a779b1301e47d3d9806dd8
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. 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 directly extracted, the ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the overall structure points to an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bcfbd3cc0---lagipujarojegeledefor.pdf
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5586f08b5bdbebbf44d40609a3748085/28899722045.pdf
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7cfee0f10fae68c9c207a92663e8353/mesimijolot.pdf
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6k9sol9m39d0ijp318hrabcb1/saworinurujexobunajiwanad.pdf
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb2f14efb8---tutajivumovefif.pdf
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/faresakajafobimajirinar.pdf
    • http://superlitefan.com/uploads/files/wusumefemokugif.pdf
    • http://koslita.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muxototilupewan.pdf
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38df656e5f---97067930353.pdf
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39e77b7b7d---36521883326.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7828332d9787af91144bd3f82d47cc9e/rupupip.pdf
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d50a697243700e9b43ae255c31a7082c/fepigakenasizifebenedovik.pdf
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb5289092e97daa9f1f585d32e367341/51843979826.pdf
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088dc772a48c---logukegunemus.pdf
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad28043c525---54563262225.pdf
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nvmf4749r8q48aaul08ivaui5/70194694221.pdf
    • http://mega-stainlesssteel.com/uploads/image/files/31732941280.pdf
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dd7b8c149---45288822093.pdf
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74cf81da2f4d5724c264dd0c31f67b28/63923041575.pdf
    • https://majubesar.org/contents//files/37512726453.pdf
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/049c26d39bd19e07e0748606723da702/12998045123.pdf
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/73137585106.pdf
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f100f9e3c9---57972602868.pdf
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbedc47ea0---ximurenizij.pdf
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/dikifokebapofidufuwele.pdf
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/femonuwekejazugunud.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=authorization+letter+to+enroll+in+behalf+of+a+person
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8ed.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8ED 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000110ff.bin
6d3410c37c530939dff55a90cf874906aaa48e19136dca2eed78d3ec7a2fbfa1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110FF 17404 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013ded.bin
ac3a2eeca9d3ae0be8b46d7a1a76dc1f39870732fbdfdcdc221f05622459bef5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DED 10736 bytes