Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1697ad12630ed54e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 18:32:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 845b92633a5e70f74d6c370a1f7717f2 SHA-1: cf5daf20f73a93a2046966ed9b2c689e04a85f13 SHA-256: 1697ad12630ed54ea56f161266ac702a4f5467fb6acb3892323fd634577c2a81
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure aligns with common tactics for initial access via spearphishing attachments. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern of redirecting to potentially malicious URLs is clear.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 http://arnoldbolingbroke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/491744966.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7f205818747c7e31033ec4b2b95515e/75199335239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/dofiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papersacksfactory.ae/images/bulk_images/files/59278527438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210903_075332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekstilkentrehber.com/upload/ckfinder/files/78911839970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gucaoyun.com/uploads/file/061458332369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocato-callegaro.it/public/file/fofawoguxigavazonevoxixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/66060681862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razredna-nastava.net/files/43666981651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zagipudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirmamedia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63460274754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszemotyle.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/wonuvepuligakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqb2bql4e9qeb2e0gosloaab34/73189244726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isgsrl.it/images/file/bedufabisuxibuvuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/wesimozilimabenekibesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/rogofekawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://35ju.21tg.cn/uploadfile/ckeditor/files/79807817891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nilsahost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/23789639279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34021398311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfonsoguiggiarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/mofaviwago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132fecfca018---rileriwezevefikobazipixuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://molenat-energies.fr/molenat.com/images/editor/file/85209917177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isgsrl.it/images/file/69121205347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralatemples.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1953701961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.net/beta/assets/file/79965250952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=swashbuckler+pathfinder+buildPDF 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_off0000bebf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6D6 11092 bytes
SHA-256: ddb8fc79eb628a155fb69ee7dcc9e579565b9870a3c492be808d8d9640d77d98
font_02_sfnt_off0000f078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF078 16372 bytes
SHA-256: d984e7bf3d1e9364f254f839176acc7ff2c5ee1c4d18bd1f4752892f44f3c1fe