Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32093f9b7d137639…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:49:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f5b504e1b561e669ca6687a763c7c089 SHA-1: fcb64c4447fc01cb46884e5089a71a7ec70ba706 SHA-256: 32093f9b7d13763956d0895ad43634796330498cbc288b2b1cacac4f8e693b9c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains identified as disposable or potentially compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to external, untrusted content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary function appears to be user redirection via embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=major+themes+in+beowulf PDF link annotation
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-20/20210620183416103397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chixue.com/uploadfile/file/20210902053457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamennykoberec.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/wirodip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toshiba-center.ru/uploads/files/24329766690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotterdampools.com/contents/files/82237228322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttworld.hu/uploads/content_files/files/21150385272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607781683396c---gukizenaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/lodab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipadel.com/userfiles/file/wafikiwitiziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/pokesagimonalivivugox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/kadijirume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ob9r4bfbf81m2jvrqc39chmoq/75378319686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9745b2408---83022648766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e645fe75789---90960510643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celiapopememorial.com/clients/4/45/45605e685ba8a3b32f56966823665796/File/43879503299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68pfjghpbmefka9d0t31vtuaf6/filovofukulixudomov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alibabaoman.com/basefile/alibabaomancom/files/goruka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/gibovotafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb696c92052---94011420586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3311a207421a8ff0089f9f106ccb5f54/49266666274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prokoncept.hu/admin/blogfck/image/file/8889531370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92201783341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafoto.de/img/upload/files/rinitunabix.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_off0000be1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE1E 15820 bytes
SHA-256: 34d6caef0e4f4963f413fa30df98e55d6b362f73a343cbf2ea5e5ff4d0fd8fc4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE660 10928 bytes
SHA-256: ff9e2941b21d71eae17f5fd0c340c48d0251e9aa6f163b07daa5968cf952c6d7
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1