Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 236328ee8add4531…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.9 KB Created: 2021-08-06 09:05:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: c6a6c6cee944e8f830ae59cacef2bf75 SHA-1: 5a431b9929986c7092919a8ba6b38669b0ed9d5c SHA-256: 236328ee8add4531e7b453e1e147ad8ef89c9db507b230eb6118dfa91474b48d
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest the document is intended to lure users to potentially malicious sites, possibly as part of a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme.

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 http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/96687560711.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zjqzzx.com/uploadfile/file/2021060720114673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowassenindex.nl/images/uploads/35987763882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/50194622345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nifitetofedirafivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7807d36e4a46619f7bb24a0a839426b/27947030243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmosimpex.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98534706376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b10433f253e---nexekeper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluminiosarla.com/userfiles_arla/files/peboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/21032486842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/mufobewagoziris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c06385509---3699924367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f673bcc880---jixatonejesedebuvibegus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gc4a2f8r9h52l28qja6pkensv/24820762690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c37032ec5b4---rupesizodolonerevomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075024eb7ea3---18636388219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083663ba2d34---fofoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9bda34f47c647dfd636485b5a83f62b/kosexazimavuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ekeac0u32q6q7fa3tv99d5eo0n/95371147427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5be4bc9bf2---belowarisofuzarefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/4750319216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaushalacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boxubokawilebifona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcon-aps.dk/userfiles/file/sebevuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821c02003b9---kagulelopuledudarufigevip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b099e45947c---nitokeluxujavutarosare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/talabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883b7a88ac3---63143021281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=the+history+of+salt+ielts+reading+answers+test+1PDF 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_off00011712.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11712 17164 bytes
SHA-256: 82699fa99a1c87bc1259be20586cf3269b8b4771d25a8f6fa0c41abedb02f4d7
font_01_sfnt_off000143e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143E2 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 7fe7d5c5b0957422d86fa6a8341d864a2072434e81eaad31041e584022e84f5b
font_02_sfnt_off00015cd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1