Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e11ff106946d7c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-14 03:53:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 325a0d8a1329c1c9930478bd61162eae SHA-1: fc005af2c0448e32f7f8b0468bab290fc6d2634c SHA-256: 4e11ff106946d7c6cedf8061170f1836c9ea1e991d5dd452d470a1025386a104
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF sample was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious or phishing content hosted on these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sous+vide+turkey+breast+time+and+temp PDF link annotation
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/60881642643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2of8t3e7b9vkqol1kc7apcktl1/64156064866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalquestconsulting.com/userfiles/files/rupobupofujez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestuby.com/userfiles/file/xulevuxusamageloxosenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/dalimutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ma2njdd1363ol39jamr96m235t/2471772637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e41ec7b0e28be01862cbf0233afddb6/guzeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/je30gb5jo9luntrhs1eb4rhkcm/4190535029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.djluk.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nlu4eebk1usdpp5ulournbg3os/30687648116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3ck3ek97rih88a744r93ljsp4/75038734583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b94fb6080c386d6e1e3016507eacfab/konanemexasunakaruzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97079954118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aafcf5689da3f1106890505a1625996d/79708428879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebymtm.com/upload/files/98557509449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a12c408aee2---povitotixamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realschoolspirit.com/scauserfiles/files/34082364865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/72935966625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a189cfa77---zogowizatasexufukifus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8644bc3570ddfe23ff5d170259b8b4f5/vapunenawafunor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southeastern61.com/clients/0/07/0748cf78e2268043913ae7c14e09e996/File/80774167457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/64615694339.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_off0000f5a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A5 17716 bytes
SHA-256: 8805610b687b759389dddd41905ade0e1c87f596b9e54a353d8a58de0f676c3b
font_01_sfnt_off0001244d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1244D 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 07220bd9acca9e48a94e3ed58485b411263b24943bd3c4d22e39341b209537e5
font_02_sfnt_off00013e04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1