Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 209f0694eb4f2660…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 15:38:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 26aa5558fd4de6f44bd5efc32ec26859 SHA-1: 45461f09af27b5362f87f4c40cd516c9e26c9a59 SHA-256: 209f0694eb4f2660019d588edeee8906ef96b26686199f65e39f381d32c5d0e3
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to other sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of compromised CMS upload links suggests these redirects may lead to malicious content or further compromise. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=carx+drift+racing+2+save+file PDF link annotation
    • https://infypos.com/infyposcms/media/36098509088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belitour.ir/basefile/belitourir/files/tujisirekagoweda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhaxuongbinhduong.com/upload/files/tonunez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ede3da070b06d5ddab6ced1e1d475b0e/zifiraragisitisexanukuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46261943287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ganport.pl/userfiles/file/xukuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/42653854011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunecharts.com/userfiles/file/bisozivoparuleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/javogusukowig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/67981619586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitsad.pl/images/file/pabolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b7b.reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/21357005045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ripedzn.com/app/webroot/files/fckeditor/file/kagubosuvelibufalonapur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ii3icn2tjupi4l9c601o1cc11/88417674335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortcrimea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewuzavorenoxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/xatekubewizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushimura1.com/uploads/files/nodikemagudaduzive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/25198466629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeng4116600qhnv10k78vs3ucq/60823522033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmottaviproductive.it/uploads/file/81320113859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelclinton.it/userfiles/files/xovurinebefuwadozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysmartedu.com/uploadimages/files/49696966270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cbc5928eba---54927539089.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_off00010f9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9C 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 2570a2d8c9d3d3853987e44dad9e0dbd52d80a9e3d3a133c317cc120b55dce60
font_01_sfnt_off000128ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128AC 22152 bytes
SHA-256: c8b70d6d6901c2f989cf6bfc7b1a2e09a747fbec84e695ed2698959b8836a61a
font_02_sfnt_off0001618d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1618D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1