Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ec93ad4674a69f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 00:52:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 61fd6e3df0d484bf464b6c88157729ae SHA-1: 131f8ee545e49da390559c5839c57bbe009c9449 SHA-256: 3ec93ad4674a69f2001dcf765df7da2a141330aa549842797a5243e2f40f5f86
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 compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious or SEO-manipulated content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=audio+recording+studio+near+me PDF link annotation
    • https://edusfera.pl/upload/file/19491537050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/xisirawukuxinoxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yotlist.com/uniformkontakt/userfiles/image/files/3247522436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alstar.uz/images/shared/file/74069944986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/punokum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariaalbese.eu/userfiles/files/54296694725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccshecea.org/upload/files/zodejep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/fizawabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepducphat.com/upload/files/12799549010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140802996091---xesajanirezulesavamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beysukonaklari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32432130816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ede2111331fef9a14feb6d1792816d46/majisut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osayit.com/images/file/83123957056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyoujin.com/UploadFile/file/20210916162303622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsixiang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210917011052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa9e1e39b67fb156fe1d8e28da80fb23/24994888927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointvirgule.ca/upload/editor/file/23628384162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudoku-cool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10263150152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tattica.byespresso.com/app/webroot/files/upload/files/75546568857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domki-kopalino.pl/pliki/98623588370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/5821626688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanlinh.vn/upload/files/dirubutabenagerur.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_off000111b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111B7 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 64e0ab16713ef68ae09f10b05b967108db48286ccee17ea323c9f4395608cfdf
font_01_sfnt_off00012a3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A3C 18696 bytes
SHA-256: 76a7843abf557a3e38197651d608be338c1db056a69495774bf12e968ef7ada7
font_02_sfnt_off00015aeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1