Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6419d65d5b2e4ef2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-08-16 02:19:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: c3445117dffebce15353cbd817e8cf96 SHA-1: d8324d30f708b70ea085260b01814276667a1e2e SHA-256: 6419d65d5b2e4ef2c03ae66dbd6db4b56cfb0ebb953b2ddc3b3ce732f496a011
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a high number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is intended to trick users into calling a phone number, a common tactic in tech-support scams or callback phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the overall structure points to a phishing or social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/33697712356.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a276f2fde6---woxitufewelebujefevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/4447984584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/86169209383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/repega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commsoft.nu/demo/ktb/wsmbilder/files/85904258233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gilupitexidadezusiwarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15563ace961e8542bb6724c753b50113/74062397040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/81757186601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23954318550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeroseistudio.eu/userfiles/files/92830110892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edanieltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210531_4BFEE65D3B9102C8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbd2542266---velawamunisutosejili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf07bb6e06d---79360828973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/wopejojolubunamisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dytac.hk/userfiles/22922550535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2hvdem1njpqrg049nd805i1196/dasoxisotefutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078aed03cc74---mukorokirite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwalabamaave.com/uploads/files/zuvupaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/kifepiraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021050213115533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/51578733159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/5142659753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd913da4bd---rixevemuderevubutuwina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63689447758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b90975d62---8987496822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cignal+200+load+channel+list+2020PDF 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_off0000f42f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF42F 10820 bytes
SHA-256: b1a9869403c88e280a8b3ec1c7229f953262820938ca333401cc9f4f4478bc27
font_01_sfnt_off00010cf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012503.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12503 18732 bytes
SHA-256: 1ecd89d60741b947266bc984875a4629bd587ca7c33d51f6b2d58f2afded1497