Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac58502d4912ec80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 01:03:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1330f34d8aa868bf49da33f06e9d2de0 SHA-1: 6c191421c00fc7f2c012711edbe6ac66a0880486 SHA-256: ac58502d4912ec80e5aff9acd321c0674864ae439fe601afe7733deb3a13d437
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm designed to host malicious files, with several URLs pointing to PDF documents on compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' lure and a callback phishing pretext further suggests a malicious intent to trick users into downloading a payload. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cuacuontoanthang.com/media/file/10706257966.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoaidn.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sofudogosibabazefimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/44726683061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castel.lu/userfiles/files/zibufeguxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2829427094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuadepthanglong.com/images/ckeditor/files/takegatijigepazimadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portoggitter.no/content/files/userfiles/file///69562173897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/janup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aguejfegacgj0ad.xn--p1ai/pict/file/powulixawegowosutixuzugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e93407a69---wizoramubofetarifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bamevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darangyi.com/userData/board/file/suxovewilifadujaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141e3e41af73---27005524045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0048.pl/48files/file/64897178875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xegesipifokidovogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/11631651030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naitikfashions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zagalelejakap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magiepourenfants.com/images/mediamanager/file/53252789174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe13e7d25e---bidetix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbautotech.com/board/datafiles/imagefile/71713660206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bursaceyizgelinlik.com/images_upload/files/mifuwejitizejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614151f6c3b7d---66166530985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/84923555114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326249131d5---8851665016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=vijay+superum+pournamiyum+full+movie+watch+online+123moviesPDF 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_off0000e6b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fecd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFECD 11552 bytes
SHA-256: cfc23268e527607a54219bc990fb8e65fc3bf8a6a1972aeff85bded43fbb9b7f
font_02_sfnt_off00011a27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A27 18240 bytes
SHA-256: 25e98c0fdffc2a8d282fee705a90fdd9d713fb687703a7ad972c6c763d42df35