Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a0a5e91d0a95671…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-24 03:29:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: ed528c7e93f66f9fa5f31c43736cf44a SHA-1: aba711d27199d63007482dd0337c4b3ccc78accc SHA-256: 4a0a5e91d0a95671b0390576b5b277ac2eff24c5518695f59eff098a7e21ed40
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to external resources. Several of these URLs are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a potential distribution or redirection mechanism. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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 http://abwfinlay.com/uploads/files/12443561843.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aqua2go.pl/galeria/file/24663420365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkert.hu/files/file/rokoduxajerajoxudizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edgecs.com/documents/sezatodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elistaprezentow.pl/userfiles/file/xopawiwofujinupivutobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abouelhoulgroup.com/userfiles/files/xerulafuzabawixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skoleniridicu-online.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71758499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/maxumoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infiniteprospects.com/FCKeditor/file/fokakafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0iqcju4k5e9oh1ohnal2p2jet9/89913706036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc-driver.ru/userfiles/files/54232143554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.ch/fichiers/newsletter/file/78770167754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210906_161600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hediyelikhanem.com/calisma2/files/uploads/66874244984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pie07cr0qikj4ot4u9fd44v6e0/87613150648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13218328254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a36498bbe---gajeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/50807495421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ap-qatar.com/userfiles/files/72772708692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatoceanic.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/40418340123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhunikjewellers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dedugugutidufiwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/bazesonemelikuvuxidijupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c7ae54969---fofirikotavofaxalaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135cab543ff6---nejukivemijifimuzozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/jarebaganexewuxibuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superpart.com/files/felenedisuzesasuzax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=series+converge+diverge+calculatorPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b6b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cece.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCECE 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 8aa3cb748c4b2df26e4b03e6e730ab72d7f7523273e58701ff5ad8e133254c83
font_02_sfnt_off0000e792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE792 15584 bytes
SHA-256: 3f51d6df3ba13745234ab3d1dea37b6448871ccd325f3daf8a047210c7a114b3