Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2de28b44415585bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-08-28 04:33:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 37538a3c47e6d3fbd8f2506909d7aa01 SHA-1: 1038e093bb6585becf14560d5446e0cd41e936c5 SHA-256: 2de28b44415585bf2c44121de7426f0c333343afa4f68951c1c1aa5002ec9ab9
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of embedded URLs suggests an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful sites, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 6

  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23b01d8e35c3621f9134898e73d40e2f/72694542167.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lmc7r8khrvps678855tca3sl3/tuvozefawililevebelez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/files/25189942868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6218e92ad9---dodekokozegesarevemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/kanakikusawuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skoleniridicubrno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92290932573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083420395541---numudow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859d551bb67---96316851403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a687ca4ace7---80916173624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f96f1781c23b1a6c04a11d6442c2f5fe/wonivabadivipenexolusixav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210628030636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909c34a1b93---18212296852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/44622257253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787ec1135d4---58424329085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://negaratoto.com/contents//files/tamoduretojoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/44336377515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf64fcaff1---40599969645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/6435607956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mauspro.net/upload/files/60938631859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/guvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27ea1d561944d62fbbae69841d14f837/kinonaxunemujowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/xarebuguwijezuwalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/91418523052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2d25c9bf6---21242215162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1674a2316f479071ef11bf4e500f0fd/7224571207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=will+and+be+going+to+exercisesPDF 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_off0000ca95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA95 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 2c24a303cc0ba493f6b08f91cb70d936db667c93b2412ef48c455d1cc8623ce3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E9 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 55b86ccbd23730abcd299df6beb4848c248b0935d497085811faee3f2b62862a
font_02_sfnt_off00010fa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1