Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2baae6fcf98982e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 11:14:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f13861ee30c12c35f6f4393b083f26b2 SHA-1: bf9da88379b1d947036601e07b00444e2be119c3 SHA-256: 2baae6fcf98982e4af7130c1240afc311f6e6a016ccc924e87484aa7b3f6b172
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings suggest this document is designed as a link farm to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern is the distribution of malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+usb+tethering+windows+10 PDF link annotation
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/bisokup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redeyeldn.com/userfiles/file/lixegofegenud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozelskadm.ru/files/uploads/files/vibusosezejavofajoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashura.co/userfiles/files/12331548942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamarkosong.com/contents/files/34472664141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r5en7uul1fd646pa84s94eieg7/767264940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f1eab09e3fcfdaf777b02dc11cefb8a/68606732207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d574c3b4a75e162e175f345266a89a22/widabipidowijilogatovuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/3432070260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelejas.com/IMAGENS/CKFINDER/files/lorigibijebajinimared.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolonchem.com/upload/files/86082515845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/ladusuperedofaxadajev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rwd1.thadv.com/upload/files/jujogimerugitorimeruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balashixa.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12343684231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satnamunicipalcorporation.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juzumevewisuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/ck_imgs/files/52871482583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenmongdangquang.com/upload/files/fadixowexepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tworaise.com/userfiles/file/13524566181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/56355090072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tttinox.com/upload/userfiles/files/jezesinitexafudajojekatog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210909160747_1107647742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.horakgolf.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39581982466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e231117cc5---64632148691.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_off0000d683.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD683 17956 bytes
SHA-256: 7e907fed2ccac2fbbded86c87322901d7fc27807fbc4ca1e2b4190a438bd54ca
font_01_sfnt_off00010567.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10567 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D7E 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 6722ca5d3b93075e736f49be1f5d82dda5a6acc2e61165b2cb153ea3a519bd42