Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ece16f683f7ac34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 18:55:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fb34a6384dc1c674718133817dfbe1ef SHA-1: e339f5fd0d37acc32daeb8e4197bac81f0559422 SHA-256: 3ece16f683f7ac347e1136dad40d84ea92dd52b732ec633ee66ff7d87cbcfb56
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of external URIs with terms like 'ps4 remote play apk' points towards a lure for potentially unwanted software or phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ps4+remote+play+4.0+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://altadirezione-consulting.it/userfiles/files/40864909820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnogotrop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wivonomunederagonak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuyothuyluc.vn/webroot/img/files/kofokebomagedimesuzixat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trineckevzdelavani.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/loroliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gensugroup.com/upload/files/78458464438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastadimatteo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vibakodezabowarix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/210907110149232373gfo33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9ba5afeeb46ed6e44972366d0c602e0/32745297537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://struttur-arch.it/userfiles/files/batanabefujinilosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/rifepubenitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanphongphampmc.com/upload/files/50169735002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/zatugurosuritime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ua8rbborf8aauqec779nk43jc/16173267679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nefoketidovajumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppe.everybodyisnotdoingit.org/gift/userfiles/files/numali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectionistpaintingnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91561271602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23991c42f21c8dffd1d52d2573173fcd/xinebafanaxofudokevefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impactpluslearning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bosare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.org/contents/files/48091322289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161402568e0461---tukokugebodidavarumuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-h.cc/uploads/files/202109072136572926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stdtekstil.com/upload/ckfinder/files/42469755313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancunday.com/travela/img/files/51294323172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaf6b891cc20358081e3af0259e035e8/pogiluvutavogagubideba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/15680814714.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_off0000dadd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDADD 18268 bytes
SHA-256: 52cd91693960264bbbfa0af517b992a7e8ce19dc436eb4f86dabe892e76605fe
font_01_sfnt_off00010a3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12256 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 0de3cdab9140adf4cf87b9446ace9af1a6d6bc394dea4bf4f4fea987fea82a17