Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e8d0a7c4844fd80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:47:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 4dfb25e3e2986400a1d13f47c2365f9e SHA-1: d58ba0d4af070896a153f2eeb1b53f380045e535 SHA-256: 4e8d0a7c4844fd80f703b4ae91d04342f8100c00d2763cf903e087b0302d462b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and heuristics identified it as a link farm on disposable hosting and pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thoptv+tv+live PDF link annotation
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/gutokuzepukobuxuxuwawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokwuttibut.com/file_media/file_image/file/ribela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numen-wow.com/userfiles/cloud/files/laliguranugopefagamewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxerdapolenta.com/cmsimple/images/file/zukemijaxumelufatotosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161482131769ce---biwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hattshopping.com/admin/assets/images/ckfiles/70816810860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoquimica.cl/dinamicos/uploads/file/37209662465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasikampung.info/contents/files/lirinobep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/66925583280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interstudy.net/userfiles/file/7315589934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sromedical.com/file_media/file_image/file/jiwozotox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clearpatth.com/userfiles/file/xedumoxumebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7317ed3766319c3cf1ee2364e8342ef8/bavumofuveveguwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semineebrasov.ro/printuri-fi/files/dubixujotiwekisap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sin-hua.org/userfiles/23103509471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/sonivitepavepodezitip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80ag1a2a.xn--p1ai/files/file/rabavagelagojirud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edilgroupdigiovanni.it/userfiles/files/76167774673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408e2895880---bamam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kq2smpc5neg6nnmb2512rjbmfi/11929358906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khacvietlaser.vn/public/images_news/files/38437777185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officegate.biz/admin/fck_upload/file/tenigifog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gimhaejazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/23831945649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lingeriedediva.com/UploadFile/file/2021090714150873499.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_off0000ee7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE7A 9844 bytes
SHA-256: 6c20cea24a34a068e798a6fc3c54afcc2e02ddd822523a9094a012749023894c
font_01_sfnt_off0001043a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1043A 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 2094386b71b31104546908db996c7d0aac1c343eb7c41021b8739a412cb7f2be
font_02_sfnt_off0001318f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1318F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1