Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d445144d72db236…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:01:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 21c7b00db1f58bf900dcca3254acd14b SHA-1: 0b080b3586cdad121364bc6c2a134164fcf409ef SHA-256: 8d445144d72db236482a4c61c954d7d4e55e48425a681c9b25390fdb161fe94d
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or phishing. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document may also attempt to trick users into calling a fraudulent support number. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sexual+harassment+touching
    • https://agrolliance.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pawefugogepulepetob.pdf
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dedd814a30---zagidulefevudupofituza.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6229bcc6e013e8361046c3ecb65b924/98262289397.pdf
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/29349924585.pdf
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a281a370fe3---39992576970.pdf
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/54183501503.pdf
    • http://absigorta.come/file/19319139748.pdf
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ir5o3qb86q6lrnbfggn9sbh9ta/rivubef.pdf
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20ilp1voo3k766iv8fvg68h2or/turumebev.pdf
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7b1a03d59---53068683215.pdf
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ina5ir0m9jiuvv08a4t2boi9l3/86657016011.pdf
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfcagv7pu0eoc79qgc38isd3n2/fejiwokawajatupofupe.pdf
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/xofalubaxadeno.pdf
    • http://chretkinia.pl/userfiles/file/63757183301.pdf
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfe7801a00c---pezipararakoxewe.pdf
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7dd01a557e59839ba03531ca2e48c82/51992388904.pdf
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1cd0a0bd3---bojukiwijobud.pdf
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/294196166.pdf
    • https://iveducentar.com/uploads/assets/file/zodevijo.pdf
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872ba4e2f75---taxajuraripez.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62fbb84a0d---tafowipotejufetiwavon.pdf
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f1f09ef1370343b9edbc8bcff057b96/vevezoveridipusegow.pdf
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec1dadff08b01bce7fc77f8f14c340c8/gawuvuguwarelodoranavorit.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_off0000fc61.bin
a6fa7fcccaf89a634281520baceee19ff1ff2b6b0f30fe7b0e4bc8cf27e9ff0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC61 10956 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001159e.bin
b1835e38fd9d58c265b7d4b7da20ccb3e2f435564fb0d4883e8596593361aa88
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1159E 17772 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014408.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14408 16792 bytes