Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2159bd6829f60149…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:16:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9d811051fd56abcddd4a26c2797379f4 SHA-1: eddcf70a04cf8d8f6d826507a2f9cb248e8f4e3b SHA-256: 2159bd6829f60149d7e95b896f809afcb738ed49c8c5dd5fc4c337b48badf367
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=snakes+eggs+or+live+birth PDF link annotation
    • http://mfahk.com/upload/files/16724950113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e6370889c1---wavajovezulon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/vozomuwolami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e8d7b749a---nuseba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04e1a2478c03fd5d947517d58535bf2c/lubelebazopetilakafukoris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcclassof81.com/clients/0/0a/0a45bd3013a8cc77df817aa526a911b1/File/54896366971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/60073312854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adc532d998da68390617e131a8e7e3c4/kuduxivipopanigosovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabudiagnostic.com/userfiles/files/dunijulagulasiguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/rozuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810e01d37dd---nomodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefjordbaklawfirm.com/clients/876731/File/nasazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/50824650570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210510091616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5de82k1cvlid7itqa531mpcnpj/80090998426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e0ead5e033---gezoniwagomarune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bec1d20ca---wuxovovexofise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdc.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77746149473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3c5c49ae2b---lumemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/48996512932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f07a75726062fa621be07415489c2ee8/wobaloramidibinuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc66dc1cfed7c6ebe9dafb685835a717/nejadapimutuwonus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/32347396114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac93a6cd95c83f9124ccab99d04e3135/bewilizopebodufubuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/35762187129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c9abe3bf5---11210499154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://score1forspencer.com/clients/4/45/4587145e2679cb7673d0e21b436e5c25/File/40595706477.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_off0000e870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE870 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 0a7880e5f9e96d383f5f9817560f9b30eb64df0e3b0429a62ea4d86e621e21b6
font_01_sfnt_off00010122.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10122 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011934.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11934 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 354e906097146fd505c22abec1f0eaad75a1ee1d26d1ce7e6ee53b9ce15ff65f