Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09f959e8ea1e7a43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 06:30:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 899a4b13a8b8caca2e3a3805e7b4c803 SHA-1: 41f937b223975190111983355a4cabaa76383650 SHA-256: 09f959e8ea1e7a43126187613cfd3cfc05f6a6b87e04996e1ce55c98d5f2cc25
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the heuristics identify it as a link farm on disposable hosting and pointing to compromised CMS uploads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=love+in+the+time+of+cholera+ebook PDF link annotation
    • https://valve-toho.com/userfiles/file/6084131998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korvioinfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zajisexiwaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baggiez.net/userfiles/file/46776522424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/rifiwedimesibujone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongtienlamnghiep.com/upload/file/mewixonumeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sluchatka-shop.cz/files/upload/files/90786263328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140306352d40---budejomosujevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borneneskontor-landsforening.dk/userfiles/file/zolalegovipinonogulux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetsnab32.ru/userfiles/file/wepefakitopuxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/1156222278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/59793566021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/zodofojimobulepafalewixug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archidaldegan.eu/userfiles/files/lexoluzowipatamiterizam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sissonne.hu/editor_up/37666670530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ee4154ab2---rovakasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htapigroup3.com/contents/files/wubijapuwavixef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/tifagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t93n1dnpn6r7o98hefl4f30ump/nejaxasagevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgx.morefriendship.com/upload/files/75700137055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijinmotor.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/90901958294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hexindechem.com/upload/files/16176601322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210913165013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wasijexezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhakhoanhantin.com/media/ftp/file/64140376986.pdfIn 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_off0000ccfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e513.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE513 10688 bytes
SHA-256: bcb6b92d798cb72a577051d9089d180e81d59d645671be3e95cab49e22b3f8be
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD5B 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 8596a651cd6edf1411617d816f83266ab30ecede60ed2a1ef776b2f79537d236