Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bf48129392dda94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-08-17 04:44:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a3e9820ddaa2d12ecb8e9124b653ce6b SHA-1: 84eeea2a648b20032817de3a019bd24638a06715 SHA-256: 4bf48129392dda94b1d88e2b59d6f7cc83e682a90aeacd195fcc0420d3608a98
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious PDF that contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the malformed stream length suggests an attempt to hide malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the links indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt, possibly using a link farm to obscure the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+korok+seed+locations+interactive+map PDF link annotation
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c5a6cd143---lafuxonejivivezexosemobin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c47cb84b082eb0956875cc5904e2e131/bukenurasibaluramifav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpils.com/userfiles/file/66803121529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewellmanteam.com/userfiles/files/gevameradowumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmstead.tw/farmstead/upload/files/repotodizekizozimawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iegenev096ocsr61fo1fkv46e6/10791688814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/gidipufepuwikus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southwest62.com/clients/6/66/666176aa584decdbf8d0f1e9213c5ee1/File/50071542327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/xizotufamatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cherrychile.cl/cherry/uploads/contenido/files/85805040662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/18799686129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a5un19c20o1vlhnnscvp54i8u/ninovapejixojuxodume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/76454238058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://automatisme-portail-bordazzi.fr/fichiers/watigemeviligid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/je3gk4k00qn75lqulto83o95v1/19427746369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/66533404115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc7j7iqbo241g0jm66fs2b9uif/tovizawetasalixofukuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/gotilowemomixaregurik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pcetravel.com/files/file/dipukufawadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westtech1963.com/clients/d/d4/d4250bc21dcbbf02d7f9bc68df143add/File/futusuwameravikawavene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/nanikineruwewevobumuraka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f004a0a6eb3dcb4751d6e73e0651c85/31491137115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.pngIn PDF document text
    • http://{s}.basemaps.cartocdn.com/light_all/{z}/{x}/{y}.pngIn 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_off0000ddaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDAA 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 58d19615d8869ae37f376bbe19b2a9dee2054769a9282dad49299b902b63376a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f69c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69C 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 5c8f97bfc289cff18dadf120812e0cc750c97f59ce6263645605866be9598433
font_02_sfnt_off0001247f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1247F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1