Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1216c6c9a025e96c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:50:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: de383f53b6d84eb6a78f3c20922f0eee SHA-1: 740e2ceefa7387c3f5666ff1d640dacb65664efa SHA-256: 1216c6c9a025e96c8d25ac3d8d0cc4a6b0b05ab574d32deffb69c6f5137f0572
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic further supports its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the primary function appears to be directing users to potentially harmful external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dogar+aptitude+test+book+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/es35kahfrcasi4lhkrpai2qjvr/sagose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyoujin.com/UploadFile/file/20210828192429092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramen.com/uploads/files/neditevuletoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vudepemisanadurezugese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/mukenoponofivesuvufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/102tdl3baggq79eio09370qcnc/zuxalameviwitiges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimabuomira.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84505995540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9b677bb80---kogulofamozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a94a47b5a5---gijufegotalitaroxedoxevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jumananivubelijewaxiraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/FCKeditor/file/nidebuzejemosalave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/974990c8b55261dea7584e6357e36d90/mitexebutezusod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/gosido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejoor71c016dpilqhqsubb0tlc/dimaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc50ddb3b81---18903285443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/20934029239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2nger26m8aro6ioin9ulbio9f0/84718960713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabsangram.com/userfiles/file/91949348271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb28ba6f4b8---48107818176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/pururakediwekoborepaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/lovajakozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92425e280e---xoporiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netdepphunu.vn/images/userfiles/file/568984063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atccs3.it/atccs3/fckeditor/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36431301802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/68284450560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/nigixelofibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddmmaze.altruistictech.org/documents/img/upload/files/mexojikabalazorututuwu.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_off0000dd87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD87 17428 bytes
SHA-256: 1f965502042c7277e4c071c31a3b9f23d78b99509eee3cfc21d4d96d5625fa85
font_01_sfnt_off00010a94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A94 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 0870c202d41637845cf801f38c8361f2b43fe6fdf46843396cc1d026552da7c5
font_02_sfnt_off00012435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12435 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1