Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8414b36643d9f125…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:44:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7d554c7fac521e7d272f23a7cd447693 SHA-1: 6d84b0011eefa6236891cbc017189c569a35e893 SHA-256: 8414b36643d9f125bfa58157b29a9dd95b2d3fd17fff9186700c8042541a810a
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 sites, indicating a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or scam pretext, likely aiming to trick the user into clicking the provided links. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple compromised upload URLs strongly suggests a malicious intent to distribute further malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9dbf93977---79274048607.pdf
    • https://reitinguok.lt/userfiles/file/84920143512.pdf
    • http://ruoumoc.com/upload/files/sewixeberuvobizugixisejep.pdf
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/55205072160.pdf
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da283b19b7b33e1edcdfa0b60f546173/63093430784.pdf
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdd8d2dcc8f---wabexunakeloredomiwa.pdf
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/sazuparokovopovidam.pdf
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/benagufi.pdf
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s995d54usu1v9nmlkdainn477q/42564910304.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca0b6c6e26---mejajibenufelafutujaveg.pdf
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/envabf6pfa1unnu7tqn0chsie4/pugazifo.pdf
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42026726552.pdf
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gds0n4tp8g6h17l5lkmi1g1na2/vamawodowiwazerisozafawik.pdf
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/lajaloxanuxazu.pdf
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607834b015f7b---misibopanova.pdf
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7ad3cd7ae5---48356735984.pdf
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88e792ff9c3370f12e9b3470a6826bc2/jokejeluduzewokikesida.pdf
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b1a660ecf9f7b867c302dfe830eed56/gesofal.pdf
    • https://hojoairport.com/images/file/diwodadoruburibaxeji.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=marion+county+police+impound
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160965a495bc45---47119172817.pdf
    • 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_off0000e334.bin
1cded5223928f00e109e380cd8d63de4f0f5a793aa446b3d6e2eccdea660d63c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE334 10712 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbcf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCF 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000113e1.bin
5900eedf42c205ba2139b3eaf9d715cef5cce23b741a8ebda34477bdb432cb79
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E1 17960 bytes