Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 489f0fd7c88ba404…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:01:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0e65d7496524d0bf3dd272de08a1e985 SHA-1: d2a33c68f060ecfcc764d4210a89bd8b688242f6 SHA-256: 489f0fd7c88ba404814dafc3967846a64315dde6151a2a02816c526a6f22bf6a
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the heuristic firings support the conclusion that it is used for malicious redirection. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves directing users to external, potentially malicious, content.

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=king+user+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://eca.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38337494899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/72911890064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaycafe.vn/uploads/file/vukesimujujepuwevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c33ea68af---30201769810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/mikopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fe6ec57f3739e016088a4cd28eda7e5/55790029840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/moxorofotazovobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcntanduc.vn/img_duhoc/files/83150132354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izyskately.ru/foto/ck/files/mifuroxusevebepewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbondcorten.com/attachment/file/8918558b701b570c79c17c30552543aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bige.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/33978452209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuasathcm.com/uploads/files/65740323192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/41498866067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harnettcountyhba.com/userfiles/file/30252391746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgunbey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/13908262028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dennismaloney.ca/upload/editor/file/fovujef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusratali.com/userfiles/files/73622010530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a1b6ee03c2---75364697962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c19fc8808---jivetazigejigurov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pr-jam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69219872955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa19da6baf77ac0f64677d371059e2ab/xasegarupukokovidotiwuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bijverhoeven.nl/uploads/files/52031245469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0607f2a3d---tobabezeguxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewellmanteam.com/userfiles/files/60962810030.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_off0000d7db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7DB 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 8ef85a5a4d09634254dd96982dc733b6fa784ad5c158d9cc0147a04c099a874e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010764.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10764 19940 bytes
SHA-256: 45b55b42b980e5ead536ea90e5756f770c24923f5c2376494486b963d28560d2