Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 262820297df9989d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-14 10:52:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 48b8aaca88aacc1c72945df55d3f3664 SHA-1: 67523b307a5973f925b0ac72942db6dfc14a5509 SHA-256: 262820297df9989d79cde35d0c3ad77237eb7a657f932129bf65ed4d8a13becc
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, suggesting it's designed to lead users to potentially harmful content or exploit kits. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=c%2B%2B+machine+learning+tutorial PDF link annotation
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d540d9938c---bezafawumufolup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3be2b0540a0deb23dff6ae705f69d80/varutalip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/wawanosuzuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d175729af0---71159371761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac6c2dead2---39656375749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzgks.com/userfiles/file///39778293805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086349333849---83202392111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htddienstverlening.nl/userfiles/file/vedogakotifudugise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/472838f3434dced381cdb6e63b5cc88c/lelogufiwujevepaditu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769356f368d---37763591444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/42361007260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a80fbd197d71159a3174acdfc6bc110e/sirox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/75433059012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smclassof57.org/clients/34860/File/juruganutamemefun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phatnang.com/media/ftp/file/49836060578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/6785916326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajudetugowuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982b823af04---nalepodadilemamawevizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738fd8d9760---547387578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8vlu48b5nlr83oeppq5esh75b1/75253322179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c956a795f6---71492512289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/933f6162630422c2646aa09c977ff567/repizuvosapuviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/koxevebitenifalado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/nadubazan.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_off0000fe5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE5E 16756 bytes
SHA-256: b560f213f25bed0d5dfd05a864d208f4263addf37796a2ddac95d3248eaa6761
font_01_sfnt_off00012a21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A21 10640 bytes
SHA-256: f66f170cf314f6907e6fcd64b3f8a863be8ede092c8fa912ac83c7c6eab9c0e2
font_02_sfnt_off0001424b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1424B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1