Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0056810f20a9c847…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-10-01 18:36:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 5e8faaae60c2d50a54cda7c9deb7da28 SHA-1: 9de267a78e7d229a547a76ed3dcec14bb773fb37 SHA-256: 0056810f20a9c8474ae4a4d473995c5b63bfa9d490b6c3042ad98e34647c4786
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting domains. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings suggest this PDF is part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary goal appears to be traffic redirection or potentially hosting further malicious content via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=personal+particulars+for+character+assessment+form PDF link annotation
    • http://onestep-tokyo.com/userfiles/file/69920103916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edenestates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zisatuvasevifebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.de/userfiles/file/52902251755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elverum-revmatiker.no/images/file/98369116927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134fdb4dd77d---24246150126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygenius.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nevarimalinovulilevaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redemaisfarma.com/userfiles/file/76096668767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturenhuman.com/app/webroot/userfiles/file/simekudavirekokebabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stamforgtechnologies.com/uploads/wowidixevobirevowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ca4af0cea---74830887501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.eu/slicice/file/pevagixoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://normec-cm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5249278085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgadsahodayatarntaran.org/sahodyatarntarannew/userfiles/file/batot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nieruchomosciklodzko.pl/files/file/bapafig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://35ju.21tg.cn/uploadfile/ckeditor/files/budinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614003451c0e7---soximolipuvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--z92bzy85x.com/userData/board/file/gesolupesubokisijonibejug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/52428351799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.andreapondika.cz/file/satebewekodawarapamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/zokigarumulumifutem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/14463967363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kulittelor.com/contents/files/91857167726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murzilka.biz/images/uploads/file/31246745895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salocchi.it/userfiles/files/zazirawibor.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_off0000b165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB165 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 5c8814d3e3334de4b36d0fb39a2fb796915820a18359c32458c7e69d7575d324
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE259 16320 bytes
SHA-256: bfedecae9708cb901599ba4e97dab262a690efebf942ee5b19bd1837a8b34f82