Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f74ee6f9a3c622a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 18:23:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 753e9e924b8c83c0668754580d56c45b SHA-1: 4b01f4cbbe08f5ffefd36b52492ed8ab34fe9af8 SHA-256: 0f74ee6f9a3c622a528c41a69ddf31b6bd8dd3aa136568760107239ee601eae5
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to trick users into downloading further malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adm+crack+apk
    • http://allgeology.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99184757905.pdf
    • https://www.newhorizonscrisiscenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaxoviza.pdf
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/wuvubed.pdf
    • https://transdeliveris.lt/userfiles/file/zixujaseropobi.pdf
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210909054818.pdf
    • http://hillsdalehorseboarding.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/relevawelotobife.pdf
    • http://ilovestory.com/upload/file/gimugifulimewi.pdf
    • http://lblussana.it/images/file/69730159974.pdf
    • http://kammed.com/userfiles/file/40365873834.pdf
    • http://bongoes62.dk/userfiles/file/64919516821.pdf
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59506946045.pdf
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e89b318d3---46897934535.pdf
    • https://webbsoil.com/home/webb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34331185357.pdf
    • https://rpaxis.net/userfiles/file/5207684740.pdf
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88965858669.pdf
    • http://jobsandhi.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/putidosukup.pdf
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6740826243bf07fc34c6950f47486f6/81375010630.pdf
    • https://www.prieur-equipement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9511449225.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161347991050aa---63070007241.pdf
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/doxorinuvuwaxosopodir.pdf
    • http://hyunshin.net/userfiles/file/rimofedetujukotaporux.pdf
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136ba09d7512---butabug.pdf
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210903000951.pdf
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/26949832545.pdf
    • http://residencelesaline.it/userfiles/files/81998188911.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_off0000bfd0.bin
054a3e19efebaa4b037eecd204ffb514c780296b2da00e0672cac76ccb84a251
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFD0 9988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5f0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5F0 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee02.bin
cbd9d6eee659e63d819c4441ecadfb11043fc363cc0294f716cf3868b7ca56e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE02 16852 bytes