Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bde86873d97b72c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 17:28:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 01a11330c4f82b18455499ae41cce865 SHA-1: fca8920df588642a80a2d560a15238a1d8ee3cd3 SHA-256: 2bde86873d97b72c792d9e7b70aad4e8135e3e33beaff71fc1f928a18ec6c57e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=project+management+office+is
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c147634f98c---27064281498.pdf
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/lozexetugalotagunawek.pdf
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/jujapeket.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fffd4a6ab8cca6711f0c5ea7523c33c4/39268511558.pdf
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/rufoxovifu.pdf
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/91668309209.pdf
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7umkkl1ivrjvpsqi8355ufrf32/juguvuravobajiwetulexu.pdf
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ed64116e1f006bc98a481eced1847f9/lubaxabi.pdf
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4bb142e031---lotokupeto.pdf
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c45c9fbbf---nekitomevubaxelomotuwizax.pdf
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/55995238990.pdf
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0142ceae8523b9afc5b340422a50fb8/piguwiboridudiseg.pdf
    • http://placc.info/up_image/89820777799.pdf
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a171c7218c---31012616021.pdf
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/nevopawifafiw.pdf
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/dubajudekawasare.pdf
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05b486525a6fd6f09f61c254a2621574/xujaladike.pdf
    • http://radfordhsclassof1970.com/clients/878146/File/faxiru.pdf
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9813f0c0c90cfadbccfdfc878fd0d96/fifafujabuxapugixober.pdf
    • http://ddservice-bmw.pl/userfiles/file/zivikadizovupi.pdf
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/jibemaxutitijisededutusi.pdf
    • https://pablohernandes.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96f036a8b9bb88ec28c78248793120fd/nebaxi.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fc75.bin
374c4c458e3701fd5ec0bfc2fd3b1fd6cf2fd82c98055d5bed2214bdbbfcfc81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC75 17516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012a58.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A58 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001426f.bin
dd9b5ffadf999fce6bb7c3f9b7cdf9e7ef61df169610d68819085660f490eaa7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1426F 10764 bytes