Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d42b332d2d885ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-08-07 17:48:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 998b5d4c6dcc62ec18797903f68f2c2c SHA-1: 14204615521cf3ec6b2eab98f95658da7a8f8572 SHA-256: 5d42b332d2d885ef6b8b6b14df7653217798d82be25a702996e9df38b2714731
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of distributing links to potentially malicious or deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+play+the+card+game+pinochle PDF link annotation
    • http://dycelife.com/userfiles/file/83861674739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/23134437941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909d0ce9091---21387087431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad35f8ffbd---632512104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/18898048173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfa4cbe094---55735448280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f006fc0a10---jukube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://path.mn/userfiles/files/31554166176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfonsoguiggiarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/7677463765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tazoxinigenuseki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/10845343225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptindia.com/newsimages/file///tasodenupumuwatajetigose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/mitusaduxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6pi2ca11sji8mqbushm52ofd2/51509381324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4k1398f4m5v8cp4f87a75o53r/wepidupevinonipimes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/dumufelirewamipumarifebeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/037b1ddc50ad9cf95bd33245f5c8fd39/kedesep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080451aad593---jilevupugusawewomujanidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1e5bc657ac84a0e3185a8402bf72d21/tirujinidesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160936a3596dde---39996307295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mahkotacare.com/tmr/userfiles/files/77735030532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ace733190---gafemasuzag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nattuvaartha.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/33930677489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d50c1d9b1f---pojikopomojuz.pdfPDF 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_off0000cf69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e77b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE77B 16836 bytes
SHA-256: 0adb1b968a1bc5c4087a8df87c8e2cec43ff3763e4ad83d6cf0866e792d97975
font_02_sfnt_off000112fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112FA 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 80538e349a2c661aa145926962ed83b4f4d5f9b6c01ee39c5d065e1b5f18d9a2