Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05b33f7d697a105f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 21:47:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c19fe8202ccb96dcd12539574f5f26b5 SHA-1: b0cc8d0673b0c92b1cad55d25341568a201e8c91 SHA-256: 05b33f7d697a105f2bdae94c2754340ba76dea7205d1d2947b0aae33002ce464
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the heuristic firings suggest it is part of a link farm strategy. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the embedded links suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious or compromised sites, likely for SEO poisoning or to host further malicious content.

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+bass+equalizer PDF link annotation
    • https://sherwoodchamber.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45035469040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyhondaotomientay.com/upload/files/xetuvunakumake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jcmimoveis.com/userfiles/file/6015820191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/58520015626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zit-tech.com/userfiles/files/15672349605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130774078d43---maziditigowuwusozowumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/26222101565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idealist.ro/userfiles/file/zuperojonuzedajofitabuxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsslife.net/upload/ckfinder/files/18508722792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhk.com/files/wusokuzawoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133871102a98---texomakesugowitegolejut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freetourscadiz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/serutafomenipewizofepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40ecb9052a84c30081254fe9e07422f4/tunodosuvalesidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/19546210820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philboyd.com/39389288932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drumlockingclamp.com/FCK_Editor_Images/files/dodoxajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/nizuribopetapagutixik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmaclima.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/34188506990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getampedmag.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxixewixixojojuwuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brakos.it/file/tojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aff8d3492ed8909ebd686ee6356fa5cf/6986352709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sergeisurzhin.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwudatuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/55582194773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/72748916253.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_off0000e2ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB01 19944 bytes
SHA-256: 2fac32484c567f71adb23e2f4f7875102ab2413f630e937fec82e1e40993df2b
font_02_sfnt_off00012ecf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ECF 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 7aa35ccfca3f107c86d7d9924377672739662cf80475e8849af9692c2a566232