Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d4bc98430567b60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-08-30 03:52:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 67ab896a5e4a4822be60c50e5971dfcb SHA-1: ed73aa5015c81a828d2a713ffb7111f9bdf9ff64 SHA-256: 5d4bc98430567b6088323bbff452e6610ed3d14592b92c4f5b31829ccdee69aa
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or other potentially disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF format itself can embed JavaScript, which could be used for malicious redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210823_4E4E532F887FD27B.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://medica-brno.com/files/fedesiwulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/falijisede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strategieb2b.com/userfiles/file/zedojojiwobinizinoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/vunegeruwitirinuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/tubokekamesagabevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbad2436ad1---61290771921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/17441891190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jucadent.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vilekupevesidonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/kijodidenapivigifiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/63943672622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proia.bg/userfiles/file/tusozan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949c27a4f77---10524071552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnysft.com/d/files/27292299997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df73sckthkpebrdlvnpqjbj57g/12935995751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paletydozahrady.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/julidoxenilonenud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/merunixonutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/rofoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b2c28b5562491afc0d9b32f1a952cb0/kojabitem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.com/contents//files/duviretilatefanasiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1da23e12d70f3843252fe6e9ed144a90/fefigajufomina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4d3c0fdf7---13087762414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=plagiarism+can+be+defined+asPDF 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_off0000da31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA31 18244 bytes
SHA-256: eb14431e230cd057a16ce53de2cf075c976ed9337f84e74a0ec0790dd6a9f2d9
font_01_sfnt_off0001093b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1093B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012152.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12152 10744 bytes
SHA-256: c0d3c8928f98d93058cce3d3ac1a5b9b89ef8884fb3e169c0fff81c04ce21719