Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dba4b534b19650b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-11 18:01:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 28916b4322445c8ff33579796cb0214d SHA-1: 27bc24c233a15b746d3b2a5224684f09aeb179d6 SHA-256: 0dba4b534b19650b6eb02534718fa7bb6c5e8d3eabf91d519b50494526d96b8e
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to host phishing lures. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=change+message+ringtone PDF link annotation
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612efa7461598---beguniko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipkeo.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78134732620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langmypham.com/luutru/files/fadewajepaluvezukazozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playworkspartnership.ca/sites/default/files/file/tuloduforatikepopozewiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/xamobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d03acb24c---18370148771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barsugo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koxenuzelexivegaleposuvib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d98655aa35c97bd1d2f9fa3dd7e509d/rajitovepivasemanuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfci.com/userfiles/file/40617940961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lejuriste.ru/files/file/pivob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96818487539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13b742fe23cb0e815bf5daf2efd2c6ad/dokubamokuxasoruvazuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gk-eventus.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fozonosol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pivusebiwuxalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glavis.biz/userfiles/file/1160707635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azseal.net/uploads/userfiles/file/zupemakirisapimep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regionalhealthprogramsww.com/images/file/lasibawepekisijewap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaytonfa.com/upload/files/25399271490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/nibefojeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/53348732702.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_off0000c2ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2CA 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 4836e0a72c5d4ec8f6f3d5503fb22213313108432c1e9540d70edbb27213fbf1
font_01_sfnt_off0000daa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B8 17392 bytes
SHA-256: c29710740fdb8d676b1013a5211ab1ae74bb2200b42017b8cd40b86ada6c928a