Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 033d783bd46214b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-08-25 22:50:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: eedc10162882937a1e1254c7c2a0b2d3 SHA-1: 2589a66dc92df143122a80ebe64995141847df51 SHA-256: 033d783bd46214b70e237cae7715b3a84262fbcf20099a9bda7095da5f35db6c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings suggest this PDF is designed as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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 http://tasarimak.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55978391316.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bangkoksolarpower.com/syner_upload/images/files/77359657848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfo-walkforhope.com/clients/e/eb/ebd0efab9cd97e953e90891d9eec7aad/File/pejunasimozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stl-hk.net/userfiles/86308848420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a02dfe710e---zolibakiwuguve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacyfamilyunity.com/clients/2/20/203fd950dafdada58ea32e7b96f0d147/File/92782230624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7ncq2lt660k16sfqs0gjjs5e7/83168846191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62e9a41eeacfe375e354a697a3ee9946/nerefifosuludasupuxozedeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72db8e68672fff846b80a0fbbceba8da/gutabadufunibotuvaroden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81ce8cac93c89da934a0eb886d0c7178/guriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742dfe1875f---nipalaboxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.instalacionescueto.com/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/biwegibamepapewefawev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35b973bb7d849ec7b145bd4de28cfd19/jipeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macap.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/15837791797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607651308ba3c---25144060098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e75104816dabfd14ab8cfee232cf59ba/96886829290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0be7fecfca---99972889870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/putofobifima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611372d6ee040---32068959788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4gjih18ggril54r537cdva4aad/35217993691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/derukupuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd02cc7b5d---78254632003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd9b46dab26---fifegemep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/lukakidemafopataf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a38417c692c3f90585c4ddb6871e2d9/bumirilomakonazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=faust+anesthesiology+review+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off00011646.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11646 18488 bytes
SHA-256: ff58adb3eab585118e3e8c1d9398e2b8fcfe7d2d650a32bd25d6c4df3e12cfcb
font_01_sfnt_off00014655.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14655 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015e6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E6C 11120 bytes
SHA-256: b5749279d305a4c768feecb56c142da8885f2c4d19e4f2902eea21daa1b30d86