Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0434434ccc954cb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-08-09 02:35:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c6401d7d7a1e05bc722f51f2cbf027e1 SHA-1: cfc83c21472fede8c5407651192680732452bc7b SHA-256: 0434434ccc954cb71b1bd246f5db20ce2d4a615e9fe0bbb3d214a759b19b00f3
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious PDF files, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 6

  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://ultralloy.net/upload/files/33373865335.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/65596681593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/260034506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--zb0by3yusal20ak5lcidnwigi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1624551354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbkhjc.com/uploads/202108/file/2108070643448746607tr0ncx0r6xr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0a4d4ddd34---43519904823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n625uinsa3gb7877rv71ihmma1/lidijibemejufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/sabojafuvonesowaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e957ee526f5e97231139a50243858db/14701436562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indirimlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/4945198719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/96706942326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0315303459---zafowepukafewuvemijiredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93071890546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanlongland.com/upload/files/rowexutejoneto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/vidovesulukubijijil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/fomezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52fbb8fa0cf22f3a52e41aa584d7f7a1/1442616994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24a324b75c1c540c8a2d8af2337b71c2/89601872082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/timodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldmedglobal.com/userfiles/files/95768249693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambulatorioveterinariosismondi.eu/file/18933770456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biothiennam.com/media/ftp/file/32317955993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/sademewajapinavetawofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d94ecd2c75f---wigiwukotimex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd96b15f3c4---54987103902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+investment+in+security+analysis+and+portfolio+managementPDF 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_off000104ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104EA 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 144182583d1b864e5134e2e2fd99e4aa54f4bbc9f67eed26c310b51496209d5f
font_01_sfnt_off00011ef5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13707 16872 bytes
SHA-256: 95b9cd346ad3a3808b20370990711e1373869138269be2c7e5bdc513fb84b361