Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ac0451ab329811c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-14 02:07:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 195bff079fb5fdefe8146b63232d7cf6 SHA-1: 2dbc5a726e9670c8f031c0c153b3a644d2497e8d SHA-256: 5ac0451ab329811c59577637a062327fec049de31edbd5bc05951209d52b6697
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment that it is likely used for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=event+flow+widget PDF link annotation
    • https://razredna-nastava.net/files/fubuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjtvina.com/Upload/files/78343992908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202109/file/24404206155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16884318836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wx-bm.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109140101238435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613010886af42---sopufagijolerinosomebeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venusnvs.com/userfiles/file/45277542297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefoster.com/pliki/lipaxixowuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a353baa60c---vetazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pb-book.com/user_file/file/badoludepusekijadef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1630888643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/worekis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7sate.com/filespath/files/20210906081832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalherbo.com/userfiles/file/60536283618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff7c2bdb67f6083e7625055a44aba77b/54647614835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamaskitchenorder.com/uploads/files/kasinirafuvibujip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmtours.si/uploads/6604490040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalroomplus.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/20292600323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/nuramerexonuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15158382681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35691202782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97520374573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchungnguyenlieu.vnpec.xyz/uploads/files/19868729857.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE4 2044 bytes
SHA-256: 9ff0be215eda4510cc1b192ab1b3482226358aa5dcf0ff2a485682e2549b9830
font_02_sfnt_off0000f83d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83D 18244 bytes
SHA-256: 6b69dcf63bdd779b762c39fe30b0600eb9a0ce4c5b7c5e84ac70ff8d8ae23c8e
font_03_sfnt_off0001286a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1286A 10236 bytes
SHA-256: 6273d826d8cec84befc1c5cf03c01143f9eaa9037ff1398f658db3073dde1a78