Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 119318132ce072bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-27 09:51:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f40ab056d03e548518caa0fcaf231b2b SHA-1: 144d52408aa59c2cabc16adde6b884d752d33b59 SHA-256: 119318132ce072bc53bbe091a9e209285ae34e1c9fbf873e3fc4000f5ce1e10c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristics suggest this PDF is designed as a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites.

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+app+store+name
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140dafe352bc---76745420572.pdf
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/karaxupataloku.pdf
    • http://www.fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95236407738.pdf
    • https://reitinguok.lt/userfiles/file/67891034912.pdf
    • https://oceanflowerhotel.com/uploads/image/files/xejobamosilov.pdf
    • http://www.contal-farmer.com/uploads/files/92550505734.pdf
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dedizanedoj.pdf
    • http://gnox.vn/upload/files/rinexuvurusutuwamexax.pdf
    • https://projetounificado.com/uploads/files/folikesu.pdf
    • http://yugang360.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912232050197808.pdf
    • http://carsonpokebar.com/uploads/files/toxesigumojur.pdf
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f38e580250---purekejov.pdf
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613790aa21db1---34259884424.pdf
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b73ef1bf2---41551214212.pdf
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130749b48a98---jamewerapapeb.pdf
    • http://rjt1.org/upload/files/97959504180.pdf
    • http://trungnguyenjsc.vn/uploads/image/files/borisefeba.pdf
    • https://keyword-lda.pt/site/upload/file/nevejosemifus.pdf
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab709be047ee7b0df8180417fbb84c6a/mosewapo.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142281bac362---24682458656.pdf
    • http://spielundlicht.de/content_provider/documents/files/84383392250.pdf
    • https://bdata.vn/upload/files/turupo.pdf
    • https://4u70t3k0-4tl.com/contents/files/99911079753.pdf
    • https://kiptep.ru/file/87236277243.pdf
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/89949271554.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_off0000b494.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB494 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccab.bin
c73cc19c9abec60f06d327d20fc4d51c1fbaf419229cace80cf7eeffa7f49f4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCAB 10488 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e47d.bin
f8e432387ddfa2c632a0fde0193b9d75adff0533b110674495590bb176c8d6c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE47D 15120 bytes