Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fcfedc76e398e18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:43:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ae7a428eec39dd492cb9512b39038f77 SHA-1: 6f64d631ac332f9f5d83272c079524c89468b8d6 SHA-256: 4fcfedc76e398e181eacb189204f3fe9b08b576f4c8c41268002b3d14a4eb347
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm strategy. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and heuristics identified it as a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content-based clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=echocardiography+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/sisavizeporeroviruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/bafenutirumusavunubesozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tischlerei-schlusche.de/sites/default/files/file/degudoxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenfountains.com/uplds/file/vogetibofufetobama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuresi-kaitori.com/upload/content_pic/files/5823386929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image//files/ziwevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherryontop.pl/upload/fotki/file/mixaxazukenaxawegajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebell-city.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42967922867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhfmjournal.com/data/22/2/55/64/2544879/user/2788947/htdocs/userfiles/file/zopinezafidosenibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.facyt.com.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24707329549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2fd0937ac---sonuwikugibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rungruangsteel.com/public/upload/userfiles/files/73517893563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com./file_fck/file/99097743622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.ir/images/upload/files/regofuwemababiwupufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.frank-diagn.hu/userfiles/files/nogirorabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/pirexifideb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7gsi8m5fjdobqk9lv7knf2qcm7/fugusodibusijevesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipoz.pl/userfiles/file/xavuvutesamevixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lizofojosopudapodej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a7e0f10e6d---jatewabibobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1sv40nbk01sg1099ihpuf8cqj4/58944999472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/gipuginidin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210713040436188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753bda152f6---18584717752.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_off0000f95d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF95D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011174.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11174 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 4ccfd771a874c7da61a538f90d73f59988edc71d3f4c72c6244963b7df29667e
font_02_sfnt_off0001297f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1297F 19820 bytes
SHA-256: adacfefd232e3f41375ba939cc7fc0925d65bb85e8719e485ea40d0d859a91f3