Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 570dd6cc1d7233d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-27 20:01:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: db2c0dd7275b6517717b5dd847f0e953 SHA-1: d72339513d465378d0d9ebbde62aefc874de587b SHA-256: 570dd6cc1d7233d9cbefbe676580597d9e55a2d2c6d6a3cd2c98f76adc22e9a7
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supported by numerous heuristics identifying the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised or disposable domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the presence of many external links suggests a phishing or SEO poisoning attack. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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 http://veitali.com/upload/files/febarerir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eebd2eaf36---sexowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88187823015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/bidapokewojosefilafise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/81051797318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/sizabokaxezofoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/38678595322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8b20927de4---76417806426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/43351386219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8uej41n06923dvngldke6ub9bj/76069437885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e39733ebf---69531445797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8h9h8urlcs6urki0jek2okune/situmegeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/48088253664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f60f8b62e2---sodonazawuwibalone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alibabaoman.com/basefile/alibabaomancom/files/25786974287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/73760922472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/buvezupanibiwanawamemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dfbebccd3b29c038f260d12ad6732b7/lidelexuradegekena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5drob05na5eoq10nc8s33mim3t/96129915252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f385d35d42c---58407537245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/nesunuzefujuvafebiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bce67d6ba3---77517296755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanifeugur.com/image/files/23684067800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moyamoya.center/images/hand_uploaded/files/82475151658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/paxifenoluzaxefig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+take+measurements+before+weight+lossPDF 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_off0000eda8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105BF 11072 bytes
SHA-256: b77d1ef6c6978b2bf341c50607adaabe271f75c8939ecac34104d92566d16006
font_02_sfnt_off00011f5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 738fa3b982e650d6be72be0049c46fa0285aa2b089d263794a89cd6379e15d91