Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f80000eb309bc13a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-06-18 00:58:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 95f41f9445061c0e75bd0147c228bf66 SHA-1: 47bae4178afc09b69915da873e0041d1677d50d5 SHA-256: f80000eb309bc13abb3d493dc86b5a856e48470815a5deeff725ec40213ac6a8
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to host malicious files. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' indicates the document's content is intended to trick users into calling a phone number, a common tactic in phishing and tech-support scams. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a malicious intent to deceive users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=examples+of+geometric+series PDF link annotation
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e98250498c2defc09357d4432793b68/daduxexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/22088576746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075db26eae3b---salenopekeloturimaxepan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fa8dd901b961923483ce1a625a48f9f/49249510877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/99162925432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d4bc2e4a8---lenuxizijozezuzuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/83451508716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be43e708c0b---xekifadiwimuxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gbcl8ugbt3l8fmtoiv6qlm0i1/9474655570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/takilasedodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08c40ba5cf---netajufijafilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithalattagarantibelgesi.com/resimlerfiles/1833546550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedoro.ru/upload/file/42265731378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f110a0791---xefefupeveniralarekowem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/67573663621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97beb5e876c05afe0b0272ae074b9e75/sobexibanetezenus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8594e548a9---vijetubesoniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c8a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8A0 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 8e32bb93a5df54dcab6b660bc8db60e0d880c50b430cbfe10377cbb0358c2fb8
font_01_sfnt_off0000dad3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD3 11240 bytes
SHA-256: e54189bee0aa83b0ad523facc3519d1f7faabed0fbe6c4f0ca6eead3f8c10a52