Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 216c389ae9ed36c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-10-02 10:31:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: d28dc3a13386d38367c0c2f2108094ad SHA-1: a4ea5f8ba969426738fa7d5d31124cc5f97d0f5e SHA-256: 216c389ae9ed36c238d0850b3c047bbaf2d85895ec3e59151f724adecea2b3a6
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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=photoshop+patterns+pack PDF link annotation
    • https://xn--80ag1a2a.xn--p1ai/files/file/29199455889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/rakimufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phatnang.com/media/ftp/file/1811304999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongciao.com/uploads/files/202109091030068789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/66549260108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolkatanagariksammelan.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nezavijajibuniwidebexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deycaterers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lukanaputimarefojadesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaseguroseprevidencia.com/fotosempresa/files/fudarebebewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/77393832084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovani-budejovice.cz/picture/vtextu/file/58784059758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhjpharm.com/upload/files/96698174774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santinitravel.co/files/others/bukozibifetofajunabuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/81177748760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coniperfumes.cl/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51812601990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exlite.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94766627532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b524ad308d0d07dc73abb3321638b6ac/5084700396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/58037071209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/rutub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615802f5dea47---fasowinexuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/60813509497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e447f98849c06688c758a936508e90b/46855745577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog/file/47984112630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/74623799499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srtprogetti.eu/userfiles/files/gowajutewugekikanale.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_off0000b120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB120 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c937.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC937 10428 bytes
SHA-256: ca239fbd6ad3ce0e2e68c2411d7f676379f4fc3deacaccd1b3611a3d6a713afb
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0DC 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 6532811d363097b1a3c910c9047c002a9ea5f38590a6f7fd358650091dc7f03f