Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 079982aefae95f14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-14 14:00:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: bbd43674c6d19c1922af3912f83a0ed6 SHA-1: 712bd62c9eca3c347864bcb3b73df06ff71038a3 SHA-256: 079982aefae95f1422e8bdb6a4fbe8f83a9fd74fad664fb96900663d2857149d
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it's intended to lure users to external resources, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+unblock+messages+on+android PDF link annotation
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/gozelebakikosexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/pusumobesusizivisibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunapvietnam.thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/28657878781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinical-pain.com/pds/userfiles/files/7234216389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97555544328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pre-www.bridge-college.com/uploaded/ckeditor/files/zatewemaxugesusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ea82e156a---87493600158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interstudy.net/userfiles/file/21657206195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rujodew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersenergy.com/UserFiles/file/ribeseterapanevedabame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sh1fefhqjrriec70ffbpl18mgd/14043359475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vututinivegike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coquicart.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/nesawafovolavilavogujurat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/tikuzumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkart.it/uploads/file/79654061245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydiction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotiwuxavivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/fuvemofox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telecycling.org/files/file/wegozakorazuwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kozadezimuzakoxekulevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longchimvac.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/55660839431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentromedico.es/files/galeria/files/petitozadowovutedoreji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotostudiovaccari.it/userfiles/files/24479340143.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_off0000d088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD088 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e89a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE89A 18856 bytes
SHA-256: 485af7e2fd8d1bf8796add488d234bc7cfe49fe45f95272c9cc51a7382799c1e
font_02_sfnt_off000118dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118DC 11124 bytes
SHA-256: cc2d619454df5775daad1e25f0d380404b9e439f7c0af41741226cd371947aa2