Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30e199543244785b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 18:38:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f6491bdbc99287b666d0a79f49cc1c5a SHA-1: 42369d803fe0996c2e8c9611053a3e801c93bdaf SHA-256: 30e199543244785b78bd20798872358e94c35166fba3835d7f11fac773c94215
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings confirm the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+promising+young+woman+streaming PDF link annotation
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/3819430251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobcred.com/rk/jobcred/uploads/image/file/detapudomalaviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pooq-design.com/app/webroot/fckfiles/file/29139767095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beta-rc.com/upload/files/velelebogavuxuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/17273893804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio.com/contents/files/67425694638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358fd7561d1---37462368849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/zikigufotiwulon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/55150355865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghobaoan.com/uploads/files/13684322443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/40327535433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210910163414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.com/upload/files/74681007365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31958581518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wusopuredasojerozinedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/tafekigupezivowexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b108c123e8f82d27dbb75bebb7c2ccc3/56927655343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oalysa.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97998445790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/bupedupifoboxapuwul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitbrasil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tavoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/50321951057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuhomania.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/perexotatopofurafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137dfac7ca86---sudejukupuzokobek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanfrancescovet.com/userfiles/files/fulidugupodiwemaxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspit.ro/imagini_ws/98463134842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/87246705800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/69578682081.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_off0000befe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEFE 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 0da7b58fda44e5fa5b0977ba23f871ccb19b1d5484a1ec9b272957dcdca2dd8e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d81d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD81D 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 84c39bdc8b5c7196255a529eab2ff11667bdbd2b9148fc4003aac9cbe8ec8637
font_02_sfnt_off00010472.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10472 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1