Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a832d2c90f4bf3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:03:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 67a31245f7f5eb30fa6e045923caacfe SHA-1: 1f28ddb63cbf551eab75bc2459f1fc477fa9fc2b SHA-256: 1a832d2c90f4bf3e2d5e53650a22023f919d1eb75e5fed0bd8f180da6c5802c1
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious destinations. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or SEO manipulation campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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=english+dictionary+download+pdf+file PDF link annotation
    • https://www.adom.biz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/papezoxozevetuful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726e73523b7---38904136853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1dc735e86fe44234e6a1d69f86074e0/96406257596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874bced3622---16512047220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wibedogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhangngay.vn/uploads/image/files/36064903232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d33468eec---negajutusopil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharajohnscreek.com/sites/default/files/file/ragiwimuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/vixekolojogemevevetadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dd2a59f627793b8e034b0548854faa5/19532297678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99ef07ddd293e9192e52c9e3c942d521/dezolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c22a6b865---90571239744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendaalzheimer.org/files/galeria/files/76954212350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duonglaohanoi.com/userfiles/file/deteripevudilojep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://q-web.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m83fii67uvdod3ga6t6stkectq/lujawukovopofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/lagugofosezipetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nepukemamijopodigezovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/sofoxozubiwizivizaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/011e75d5f04f25f0fdefdb5e730f2f2c/33748381339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210612192522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/85536329845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getracemirates.com/userfiles/files/89036296011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608445f7c1c65---zesuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/6032762062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612daa028a96b---pajomenugan.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_off0000c963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC963 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e175.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE175 17372 bytes
SHA-256: b8a5f07305bb90288791d8c201ebad63f78411c202fe9887140e956fbc744171
font_02_sfnt_off00010d7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D7A 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 1128c01f217906c2c8177b73a60ffff46137ca88a87055cfb7a9ea63c56b6c28