Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 202bb6a9f6b56ec7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:20:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1aab9dbdc0b1f933742e3a5d8061a094 SHA-1: ead45928fd424322cd4dcee15d59fa200800c348 SHA-256: 202bb6a9f6b56ec7208bf07964de913fa036140a5542aaff671c92986ac2c7aa
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL distribution suggest the document is intended to redirect users to potentially harmful content or facilitate further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://lsmtrontractor.com/upfiles/file/20210901015121.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lacaune.hu/userfiles/file/77869580913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/tujunetavosibibogek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76dgao4rj5entu1q190j0mflgd/9716205105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0edf3c5e5b70a513fb9af9c01990e596/pusisoninar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9nm3cmq8e8b7bbckvf1t4l85f5/94321971255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhaxuongbinhduong.com/upload/files/xerekebigufiwura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingdove.tw/uploads/files/202108231929467524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podwierzba.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nasewupizenozafebut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/5318327059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/jagikujowowukidogila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mountainbrookbuilders.com/home/mountain/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70289106543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607820c0beb98---56733569552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.com/userfiles/file/7175639436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgfb2ij37g4tqsrtuqdmql9cl7/72591579844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c97ce0fc529ef73b0c3a8ec721dd1bcc/jixivafovejixigefodadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94c315317cf8c63a62412b09a6f60e30/sepuvotedisubobinebava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/subiserabadapadiriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609068e066fe4---76490488350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/losanugufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweed-trans.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/8576624753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardlankin.com/clients/86087/File/39194831338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=makerere+university+logo+pdfPDF 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_off00010660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10660 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011e72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E72 17568 bytes
SHA-256: b50de95d5c69dd38b9b71eaf2205dda4f0f055976d3a16f09f3bb1ffd0460e9a
font_02_sfnt_off00014c2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C2F 11040 bytes
SHA-256: a22b9e06f3050248cdbcccba80c82f665c17e19784cce67bebf6fed33f546ed3