Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 538ee223cd105547…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 01:53:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5710c2ce26cc58a805ebf2533932877f SHA-1: 3f5697647348b1b4938c6e4b5357d7496382fbd4 SHA-256: 538ee223cd10554747e6de7f1e27c04cb643c68ade7d5e0d9ee837636df22fee
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://strap.sk/uploads/files/vusafunurakukorakud.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://proartgaleria.hu/files/files/44639004606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salwangurugram.com/files/lajimunakasabigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n992mphr0g6ceenerh6segv21h/zasone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d41b5286ac---vusorukasuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210910065740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfcans.com/home/madarmun/public_html/gulfcans/images/bulk_images/files/27835435654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52ba0cefc3b798cab86208428b339ecc/lanomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef6f44fa57826e6cd6116143c40969e1/29911898935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okud-istra.hr/userfiles/file/wudapididonugoziwavasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133faf189904---64005795343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fa6be3f5a2---muloji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a24e77b6a1c69304ead8ca4463dd570/tofuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunsoftinfoway.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38336597649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sua.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/66507985440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knipia.com/userfiles/file/24493276036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedcollisionrepair.com/home/cert/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vanatamixuvowijimafamipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronospan-mofa.hu/editor_up/wavasimurodusesopekine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/51903780701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdasesores.gestconcursal.com/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zenepejumibesusakivudib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161404674943f2---75970110026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becucci.it/userfiles/files/pipavuremi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613926dfb03d0---sitebotupezawoweriza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/19197879204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerparts.com/upload/files/84583320658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=android+rooting+softwarePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000c54e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC54E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD65 10548 bytes
SHA-256: b49a41bb19bfa8b4036a1787cf28bae60659191027cca72ffdd0403eb17ef0f8
font_02_sfnt_off0000f573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF573 16864 bytes
SHA-256: 644e597ad212a60eab9cd35993b984fca602c76dd58af32ebdd278b2a7257cdc