Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41c30f613813fbaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-06-12 17:03:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 93368f19c8c7a3d5c25c9d1f48cf8022 SHA-1: 4dbc226ed3bd52c126fa7d6c196fec3640fcdf7f SHA-256: 41c30f613813fbaf6a88909210b3cd6a747135c5ec4fdec49624dd5cd70eac1b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, masquerading as a download for 'arya telugu mp3 songs'. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded URLs and link farm heuristics suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious content, likely for malware distribution or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=arya+telugu+mp3+songs+free+download+320kbps PDF link annotation
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oo629k7m378se7urum91cs1e82/tukabironetezefupaxabise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857daa340c7---20683378259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b352059dd17e3d7e66de6395d5d21aa/63347651339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915f010efb4---tutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/wibovukomisudiwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6bc0f30a0---79541186144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/xaruwuwusofulasejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3af6a02727---39606014958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ag9eqiva04ekj1mt79v58gc4m7/94944958636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096700d4c20b---14480496328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hissekurban.com/resimler/files/71081729572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26ca912423---jutawokopawizuwowoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5253cf84040d6f34e8cf7a188d172f58/54095066243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fc515c7df---risejaramegisedudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/mikixafexudogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29480a9bfbd56a2926051afc0de3245d/11728382535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbb87d5ae9---2575315952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010319.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10319 6020 bytes
SHA-256: f52886a1d18dece212625b513fb7b515ee381c7646ca0eecea930714346d6749
font_01_sfnt_off00011798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11798 12252 bytes
SHA-256: 96fa94d3daf2b2556f237d242213168a4a4e3a8cee0e036317a0c8b3479dbca9
font_02_sfnt_off00014176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14176 16164 bytes
SHA-256: e296a61d2d303e35be9e1a35631556663d2780498efa7e8f3867bf557f172fe6
font_03_sfnt_off0001568d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1568D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c