Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 133a85d62158d1f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:29:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cefef130661aa725d446f4aae36b31e5 SHA-1: 4b0fcec29b19c617ef444f7a3caa6df327fcd1e4 SHA-256: 133a85d62158d1f6bbedfb3609333750bc92fd79eea22d22b09b60f1268a87c8
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious files. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to download a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/39530186560.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chatyzvule.cz/uploads/konapafudaromokol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b04303d8f80af18fd830a6a945be37f/wejet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jd3gqrjjdh7nht92ocf7vstak6/93095417160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terminsk.by/pics/files/71133829848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56ae55cdda---disotadafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbdc6f856e2---gejeforebukipubijenewoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobilgold.com/file/dulapojojumigifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamotato.ro/userfiles/file/bukuzosupajebeguwane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bearings.vn/images/ckeditor/files/21488683858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurocomm-italia.com/file/fewinas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g435gm4hhni9iiqm9kth1vfd98/kibefajikimosata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612de1627bda9---18630920684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f334b5421ab---rizaburejaduzosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e4595484338e5723d54e4e7f0f3340c/muluxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fa2aca968---34080909860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db51503cc86---22713022046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828103099bd---jubolegodusagelalena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landatur.com/files/galeria/files/19099398645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagussago.com/userfiles/files/28358682455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47796095674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/sofafugozufokilewurut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dcd2bbdaca---58690902664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=x+divided+by+3+answerPDF 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://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_off00014513.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14513 20024 bytes
SHA-256: 0128e382f8818f29f1c13facf6d7ece739fbe322735ef4a8cb502ae363dc2463
font_01_sfnt_off000178a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000190bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x190BC 10560 bytes
SHA-256: c2fa2578b799fb0a38f526f69245e6b06d3c0013d2512c0441f975d4a97acd62