Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06ed2cf9d21df7d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:47:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f4b7c3287174089c5f2e5100a8a22f9d SHA-1: b2a4900fadd68314125e668ac33dcfbe717435d1 SHA-256: 06ed2cf9d21df7d7d45733fcb114edc17ccf56735e462a88d6a8475103d8de83
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to potentially malicious content hosted on these sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and link farm nature are indicative of a phishing or redirection attack.

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 http://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/ruxukimevuruf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mt5rh8geu1uk1i5sq5ftkrvvnc/kojotatejevefimuxasulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersonassoc.com/emailimages/file/68641108893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/xojuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/tuvonavofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terlickodds.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/27045315235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://righetti1970.com/clients/872956/File/lowunesikevekasatax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d858f392e0baaa0fb662cb4523945fda/99800888030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6acc53e76a26abb7fa531971f4dde330/20272596504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876874ab811---4352239902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8cdbeb8787---pikawawat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bi8p87fbss8j9gujmnvtnue5td/redetexifozoxabul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitree.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nukewixulupogowuvuladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079629f4d2ef---60687613678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/016e8e3ad16061b9ace0b49a3af487bf/72598071595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcvizovice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76762221073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202105211428498496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a8eb23a4e---31891742310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/xijexesoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/mufutaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70123106931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123dce86ab69---jotofewojukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southwestlooms.com/admin/userfiles/files/60974721145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/wafuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/61518166610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=aptitude+%26+mental+ability+tests+pdfPDF 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_off0000efb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C7 9760 bytes
SHA-256: 3780cb9672afe6389e32d8ed47d55b61a76c776960d5257b7b4e94992758c2bb
font_02_sfnt_off00011d31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D31 17356 bytes
SHA-256: 8229a4444819f7454fb7ef8710448c451f8e2a3bb453075682a3176782cfef4e