Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 696c54c92d3387cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:24:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a5bbc8ecf68e6546a6e235eec3fa31d7 SHA-1: ec0bbecc4604118bc16c03cb5b44e534131e8e67 SHA-256: 696c54c92d3387cd4b6cb614ed1feeaf0ad9a2964215633ed214df9bdd1ec54e
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a 'link farm' heuristic suggests a phishing or scam attempt. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs point to a likely phishing or scam lure.

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 http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718f6ce2840---tawapuwitakalumu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e4648eab0f---39880125608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/kuvijifisowogijogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac56a90d88e---15572024402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmloccitanecr.com/campannas/file/tavotimetinowiluraduxikum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/759fnvgidg1gnromuv04bqik61/kerawefewupobobikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reazfarah.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/retonajakepunimabalaxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietrocknet.org/app/webroot/img/files/dosakutaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunpower.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59840219618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailynewsodia.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/66773526423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3af2409290ac3766448c99297df4602/58543052098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/12941572681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295edac8612f709ad64c55a6ce487c1e/jujosudefupowararagur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jualumnitoronto.com/editor/uploadfiles/tidagokigewam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1e789b786---lijogexizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kap-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vegizadizowuliri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/xenawulifupoxuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rn9taojs647c8dn0otoe6vjj35/jatavex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/358f328acb07ded4fb0c32980c5ab78d/16255810396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/15954062579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zespolbahamas.pl/zdjecia/file/sodopudisutasukojezotolan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lossfundraisingevent.com/clients/f/f5/f5ed5e364f2f51aa46a4c5982fab9a07/File/85059773997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=angina+estable+e+inestable+pdf+2018PDF 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_off000108c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C4 17900 bytes
SHA-256: d6a1ae8e25e124f28f3c9d2783ee62528e5020d0a43be374ca07028c97fdc004
font_01_sfnt_off0001378d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1378D 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 0810f93f3eb3a2955ff598fd8038b447d3b2a3083fa70a73c0fc9c3482916e50
font_02_sfnt_off00015136.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15136 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1