Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 081771bc3b532ed9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:27:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fa52231574a4c5cd7a84ef2f0c01fdfe SHA-1: b6c2d8f639ddec9eeab7584c7824e34031290cca SHA-256: 081771bc3b532ed9418d3542a1afd5344840e421ea999dd9dca595fa835d212d
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supported by heuristics identifying the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads. The document's purpose appears to be directing users to external sites, potentially for SEO spam or to host malicious payloads, as evidenced by the numerous URLs extracted. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+celebrity+outfits
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4af4b18be87020c20d7e0bae5770c83d/dudulajutanum.pdf
    • http://gongotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210703_7048E6B59FA837DF.pdf
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/19742505735.pdf
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e29de67608---puwarufad.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/86348040815.pdf
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/vulagigawula.pdf
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9h1uac776blcfqdd4vg4lkkh7/nekofimidikerev.pdf
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dacb4a964bf0aeb42092078d91cfebdc/68190697255.pdf
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/39114040033.pdf
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/19753424818.pdf
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fln12kifs5bqvlg4flm3tlso26/gegisavuzezosidapeku.pdf
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ffc31cdddf6a1b1b1868db3010d70a/jalinagadopobevula.pdf
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079869516629---jukewu.pdf
    • http://navigator-33.ru/media/file/xemegufizapoga.pdf
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160994c58a37cb---mowolozexagutalujituvoko.pdf
    • http://foodsafebox.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuzuzadesitelu.pdf
    • https://tasivn.com/upload/ck/files/88656648.pdf
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/tadogasoximonexuminepu.pdf
    • http://taskentcompany.com/userfiles/file/molejimupe.pdf
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/kevagujelaxugijakorubenob.pdf
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5t4bp6kvcon2hbrpodbl111m7/botukilaxamosewosa.pdf
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3964974ed91e6f35bb1360f8b0090ae/20989904049.pdf
    • https://chezgregoire.fr/userfiles/19798869031.pdf
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a16e25c583607ce06130289e877bca/86647432085.pdf
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/feleloterixadawa.pdf
    • http://indovinandoilmondo.it/themes/userfiles//files/govawakedabe.pdf
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e6919dd7f7d1f857df6927efcdab189/2109167961.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bc79.bin
54a3e421c830b1883da92e30a0e8d6e6b2a141b1719d320ec1e26549e8d7ac42
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC79 10468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d470.bin
3b7ba9e1be59ccd6e6057ca23701207a6cc7f5f328ef575cc0039f6f5d57e0dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD470 16812 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffe2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE2 16792 bytes