Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 459d7785c6bdade2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:28:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b2736cc834244455486b8bd1b6a8be19 SHA-1: 0306c8cc7d997d04768d520b30fab51a9de2ff94 SHA-256: 459d7785c6bdade292d24f4bf45c6949202ec2ab59314361495920d68121958f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attack designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure points towards a distribution mechanism for further malicious payloads.

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=importance+of+instructional+materials+in+teaching+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulbejfsqdompjelkoih9imvq6e/91208520266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4822bca391---moxosexabepigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cf7b690f5d5ec0c5d67b34df3090e10/kebumoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/9696699954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jfibdf44b38hb079f8j1o13m5/kawavinom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brawlcall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kovure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcm6tq7cvnde787jfb2oj3qcve/misagoteravi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqpmrp479lh8ni13dgko909mm4/gapimabozevaxazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8256a8a964---tizomiladunalimanareku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vayoto.vn/userfiles/file/5862380552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62cbeaf056f2ccee2fcb50cc31fa9c99/kowir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/91511887206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809a2e1fad1---44721777204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/85689651595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vpn-solutions.com.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gipukilifelakovevevilito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartinatv.org/uploads/files/miborewogalukutobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adimhukuk.com/resimler/files/35941224421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72a390ac0b---nuxavebolepoforosuvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasymusic.it/userfiles/files/13297707121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4ade9c647---nifuguzevovibutugepexetoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pasabovudovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae48e55cae2---45066139091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saconsultancy.com/userfiles/file/84989689758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldksolar-officialliquidation.com/userfiles/files/5270783527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf96a387f7394f356f10e07ddfed7fd/44145539811.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_off0000e659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE659 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE6B 17944 bytes
SHA-256: cf6efec3f56bfdeae789cda772a6c2231a86d1b90a49e18b3c1ce1df67ef4bc6
font_02_sfnt_off00012c96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C96 11120 bytes
SHA-256: e28cfc458befa6d2c7b2547f31b68ae11c5fb52197b3e69cd35482727b14dc9a