Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a35d39b93e1d3c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-05-07 03:47:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5b97ba90bf3d1f97435cbfbd5aa69086 SHA-1: 82c1ab744fa36f7611c34cd9f420e34f6d493278 SHA-256: 0a35d39b93e1d3c7bb7a4eb59ede4a5db70aae90897468a8552e1fdcd3cea8ac
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a 'link farm' heuristic further supports its suspicious nature. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain metadata rather than user-facing content, suggesting its primary purpose is not informational.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://aimic.com/userfiles/file/nutim.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/am04ra3a0mop985oplvf6ia8e8/monemugosagozalelum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e0d41e862a---vunas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607552670efae---zofurotosisejotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbh1t4jsqcmd355m9a8bka4iv1/49919538039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/fasux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fec0d5a86e---finod.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093aab14bed6---68453088320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/40529756458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607252b8beee2---pajerugodim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dj88rgeukfk054ubfon88v0kj7/kokixerifoligiluxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a29613d6115543ec7b866556d7e88a6e/dunubatuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074703688298---48919181291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ea73a23d4---nexopifurujideziwika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dpp7npveadmrbuc5hm3c4dii0m/wiwogigor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806bf840d46---togekorijibamuzex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4sgv7igsjp4rdojiv2s790ro4q/37536191310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/74740889883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UsIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=leather+coin+purse+templatePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d956.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD956 5116 bytes
SHA-256: 201d1dc80fc337fe5b09df54195fca68aa04e2ab1101c29539cb8f506f8572cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA92 11036 bytes
SHA-256: a3fd7e2f9aed181317d5aa57e5b762a86a4a3d9364538be07cc820d6a4f2593c