Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a082848c84d99f10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 12:00:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b296c034e4d0a1be2103d774191d9a89 SHA-1: 970c566ca745c3d0675b7da2942f6e039a83d7f5 SHA-256: a082848c84d99f10c712b382bb0013d6c519156dea1b4bc8283601f151811e4e
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of hosting malicious files on such sites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or scam pretext, likely to trick users into downloading further malware. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prime+video+apk+for+windows+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://ssvacancy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4121963875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/zidapewixafofusolugaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allier.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45944433800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyccpharma.com/upload/files/riwokezadobazatifabuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631569984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karolinanowak.com/userfiles/file/32007172082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146f22deb13f---52467816799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210909015848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/wixozilakeketimopuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146a5bc45d93---85862002101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skazka76.ru/pic/userfile/liwevavino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fawetavevagumojufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/vipetesazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakov.hu/_user/file/52751749233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/fopanuzosirasevazixomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--atpta-nfb.lv/images/userfiles/files/7085520637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a94faa5aa1---33344283077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbb11ac72894eff9687eaa1e2b17c989/wolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetyassessmentsolutions.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuwaziwajuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8os5epuhudedk9f96le09agcpd/92450768773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.videocopilot.net/assets/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doxojolojiwowevawiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baldonimarcostudio.eu/userfiles/files/4545790770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/2874213084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c94c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE163 10932 bytes
SHA-256: c7ab872b344dcf792092bd7a052d114bcf1bf584066cca293339c4550782dda1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAC5 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 20f3c51577d4f5f84025fa1e27990df89c011f96632c38d1fd0c55d630c54a53