Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c01e2f94eb7f5bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-26 04:47:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1f3517fd000ed2f98847fdd1dc1d14c7 SHA-1: 36262319120cc03318b655fa44e05052ec261525 SHA-256: 3c01e2f94eb7f5bc27ac02cfc9fef3a923952d92cc130fa04fc6f51d7a81729b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to redirect users, potentially to phishing sites or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/tapolakedatujesoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://orrizon.ru/images/file/11639528838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rana-international.com/userfiles/files/56689949466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/xurujusep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportingfoundation.com/uploads/file/5001769277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q95qj23ss97n6986gg1c9uqj0h/81550230278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/80775904700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdfsztal.com/uploadfile/files/54876870495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b8a2e8b2a5a9aa19c3f1246bbb2aeed/dalinadefisofegimusozop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ciela13.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/nevudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fca8d18275---fovilunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ba51e4d60e---60491909112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f51b5ca818---31342684254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sudeoksa.net/userfiles/file/20210913230427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://journalofcritique.com/ckdosyalari/upload/files/dewovafutobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/wixomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivatbacchus.hu/files/file/japegoluvotopasogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrospizzadb.com/uploads/files/29915505123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arrhythmiaclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210916014511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87ec8a38bcc2bdbfc5194e2af70fdba3/6607760491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batistar.fr/userfiles/file/xezuzawumilenugoliwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/54212115941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sing+plus+apkPDF 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_off0000b9de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9DE 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 393b4819b98a52ac7c0765114d5d7da2374d139174529562fc6f81b03c427dbb
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0E1 21568 bytes
SHA-256: 622371bf31d14750675bf188707b947a9085f46551e3ad05e24b42e4a1f79834
font_02_sfnt_off00010939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10939 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1