Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0967e4f297eeefc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 15:17:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e63b086d3045c433bf1a681e031d1724 SHA-1: 62f41ef3959bb3e7930afd718688f946ff318e04 SHA-256: 0967e4f297eeefc8bc06387804fe881324dcebff0be5cd30499aedef7dcf8938
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggest the document is designed to manipulate search engine results or lead users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/sunizul.pdf
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/67848666582.pdf
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161422a7c4b299---vixenuteronifosulotu.pdf
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48e7ba3b19e16d40e620fcd8a4635530/tanavemijusemalivudufuge.pdf
    • http://dsfly.com/uploads/files/82560620546.pdf
    • https://www.marjojaspers.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roziwowufelirotet.pdf
    • https://askisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/sugarefubabakumuraxogij.pdf
    • https://aluminiosarla.com/userfiles_arla/files/90109854104.pdf
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/48250039301.pdf
    • http://eskuvotoszkanaban.hu/editor_up/65616565738.pdf
    • https://noelex22.org/userfiles/file/rofedo.pdf
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/14024913691.pdf
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/vifikasedamik.pdf
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/fenuvofumavevakatunoboxik.pdf
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/rebepufunaxuruxixijusano.pdf
    • http://erainbowrealty.com/userfiles/file/tilumobowitafadukut.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/xipupamoxajaboxafuvugex.pdf
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/44517865400.pdf
    • https://5ky13lu3-1251.com/contents/files/zoxiloxepiwoso.pdf
    • http://vngo-cc.vn/cooker/public/files/43718856557.pdf
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4fa7a7bee---72943265227.pdf
    • http://maurovalleferroarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/71997596817.pdf
    • https://aldwalia.com/userfiles/files/taribosom.pdf
    • https://momsgardenfoods.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuwamatipu.pdf
    • https://saleskerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/darozoxizorawa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+connect+mobile+to+mi+tv
    • 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_off0000ddcd.bin
5215c83ab9dfeb7ab7c74561a91eb8744f5aa2405f6d4bce00627b42d33f733e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDCD 10244 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4bd.bin
bb6135feef889f4f723bb41b3005c042a5169b3bbe1510ee1aa0dcc42df3c460
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4BD 17488 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000121cc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CC 16792 bytes