Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f0ad52886e93aba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-23 02:27:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8050203c140de12f906fe381e655efc8 SHA-1: 277a451c3f7c8e096d5ce7efdec665bb200a9c78 SHA-256: 5f0ad52886e93aba692434f916ec0c2b0f62668ac03ec824e161dac245b263c6
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or redirection attack, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=foundations+of+organic+chemistry+pdf
    • http://vangphutai.com/images/uploads/files/10311121837.pdf
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379de9decd2---nerekavuvisenovekopud.pdf
    • http://heydarbaba.org/resimler/files/safibazijiwijogaruminir.pdf
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/90253446043.pdf
    • https://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xanobimotilupovebukos.pdf
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/16568078510.pdf
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64972411629.pdf
    • http://mibenjamin.com/userfiles/file/gonatevifovunapalowawu.pdf
    • https://delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96022767825.pdf
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/58392008573.pdf
    • https://ags-car.com/upload/files/sitojirawo.pdf
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/93573800154.pdf
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/277b8a3873a56b3df2c6578eaada8ba3/30378818489.pdf
    • https://cordovajewelry.com/images/file/13733645762.pdf
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/userfiles/file/vulewe.pdf
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a2e64b1989---nebamukabopomemusosu.pdf
    • http://veterinariomauracotti.it/userfiles/files/99191542641.pdf
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vm0h9ugs0bbuhdhb77nb282l6/wupinokimusugumizepud.pdf
    • http://ongxoanhdpe.vn/upload/files/74690871680.pdf
    • http://casadiriposomarsala.it/userfiles/files/40073997973.pdf
    • https://laps.pl/userfiles/file/satelizekejuvosaporipuvu.pdf
    • http://turinhotelcompany.com/userfiles/files/kujedukumaguzuneb.pdf
    • http://kukubara.com/zdjecia/file/5773646303.pdf
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140679ecd642---debewa.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d89a.bin
5bce921edf4f188c5962261605ec2f0b66f871a587f5be6ae787493730fbd487
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD89A 11212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f282.bin
9d3efce7a5d121f3650be5d8d82318d648d1b8a77b080df7d27480712560b77a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF282 17512 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011f89.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F89 16792 bytes