Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d06e97b016dcfd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-06-14 19:58:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: d6815b26ae83226d7c61ea3625a6194e SHA-1: 8ecddb1c8fe8d2aff5c7f114485f9907067aaabd SHA-256: 4d06e97b016dcfd29f6eed0078833b6a4143622d0b16648115798f8f27f76655
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of invoice/payment lure language further supports a phishing or scamming intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=app+inventor+2+essentials+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210508085440551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf5bd321718---71571103598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjr7tc41govsm0p6ihbrcbsm4e/bawumemiwuzosulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coatielectronica.com/files/vixux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/903de972e29dd7f89fb8459dbce9fce6/16022421331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/82491985304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608913eb49bed---todiwatuvorix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa60044ecb---53930258177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1q9hse7f5417cm0lvekgb18pb3/tirojitoguvakuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao0r90rf2fg9j4g5bpo20pl441/15311029981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/jajasimuvosidefugok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caed11035d7604887ecdba1c17a919f0/31675745482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fbd2e7b7f---29206215923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ffeaa91717de21fdca0ccb839ac6d39/dojivuwexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaunited.com/contents//files/vibekorikupitura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59d2714650864cbbe4ccc54d7bdc2e00/fozadomikifajojozodilomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s97mmkekjbuokuunkm2pje6qiq/futuzojejasado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada5fcc7b21---39670871146.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e542.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE542 5004 bytes
SHA-256: fa422d59b6148ca621b8a4dae9dbc2081a55379fe81e5bbcad2a66255a97ff0f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f64b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF64B 10788 bytes
SHA-256: ea54ceb1601fefa626611872cd4bb30c4c015aa75abcdf36623a49c0be095df6
font_02_sfnt_off00011b3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378