Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a80f56644d87fec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-11 08:42:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ba4c57ffaa7601db6103ccc6806e4acf SHA-1: 478c813a260b296ce80b059be4acc0a855724072 SHA-256: 2a80f56644d87fec20263a1af91a70c0386530df7799b91fe4fd25926e9f3e7b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the PDF structure suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://prvugkh.ru/uploads/files/3091935822.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312b78bb091---42393614012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lepetitjaunais.com/userfiles/file/bovabupojetitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6555890697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/xufapew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stephankeppel.com/userfiles/file/76896715644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeleven.net/UserFiles/File/61932445366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130777485a5b---31362140515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhkygroup.com/luutru/files/24689959081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourconn.com/userfiles/file/202109031159023679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospel-pour-100-voix.com/fichiers/newsletter/file/22244351005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darshanam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26616737878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnfhdc.com/UpLoadFile/2021090917314928265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettodrabeni.it/userfiles/files/lorekatigure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezrenpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/55343213437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22610153435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abw10thstreetne.com/uploads/files/letekewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henghuitong.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210910101121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161398c25716e4---27644323380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onfireinteriors.com/userfiles/45530469169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/41794144336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dogandemir.av.tr/paketler/ckfinder/dosyalar/files/padivamefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russia-ex.com/images/blog/file/953707787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+new+state+game+apkPDF 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_off0000d2e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E3 16768 bytes
SHA-256: 954c637203e08318ddc2505695364894959780ee53e9aa3135427268c3209147
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDFD 10656 bytes
SHA-256: ad6b7942f90bd1be13b3cc439a1d28c7a38fd492287a4c00c9be182ed4d6e709
font_02_sfnt_off0001164b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1164B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1