Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e48c18f9867ef4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.1 KB Created: 2021-10-16 02:20:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 5e9a73495083e898021a82f80b1160d2 SHA-1: ac1a9426c55f97801e57661c106e1ec16cd18b0a SHA-256: 2e48c18f9867ef4d01de83b74898d049848c3a283c552f1e6ac28510988aa48c
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 other PDF files, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Several heuristics suggest these links are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, increasing the likelihood of malicious intent. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9853

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ancient+chinese+chariots+ielts+reading PDF link annotation
    • https://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/48008923210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/gavorok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanniseneca.eu/userfiles/files/76903535624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revive.fashion/upload/files/vadulaxamemeruzonunupajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dd955966a329ba7c750f89926c299f3/vewapowokebewepejoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poaglasses.com/uploads/files/202110160716431463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckm-machinery.com/userfiles/files/5728388521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.net/filespath/files/20210924050844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16161447d3916d---97881393476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designklasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96614821979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-ostrov.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sanepezulujumijisoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaness-sens.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7764474524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615608d8aa717---99004956010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happen.webasl.com/userfiles/file/verobovixalufixisudolobav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhurwallpaper.com/Files/files/bifukuxonovisiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ropaalmayoreo.com/images/userfiles/file/85078444986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210929191805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210905202352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/17334890237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodrago.eu/userfiles/files/nipotaritolesasadog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/6605354063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nato-denkmal.de/uploads/file/tilijowuwifatanasuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonere.shop/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/pivefenedoterodedonobipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1a72ddc3e06b486ce481d212ba461a0/kezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-praha.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tolerijewinebevod.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11231 10632 bytes
SHA-256: b280b5b50f30c68a2cbcb63b267d2220874c316ecdcbb57d189076797949120b
font_02_sfnt_off00012a3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A3C 3524 bytes
SHA-256: da2a3003498248c9f4e531d71f5e69df5b63092cd813f6b061c4c3776ec9215f
font_03_sfnt_off00013841.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13841 16232 bytes
SHA-256: 90f9ae089dd12791f6490b15022762b8a5262880f52e89cdbee174eabfc1ad21
font_04_sfnt_off00014e0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E0E 21964 bytes
SHA-256: 322fc3d973c5de6dbe99c4d056b22649ee0a93a0fdb8fc56eca08fba8ee60a18