Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60847f530197f0fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-06-07 08:08:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e2a8d486e6d4579fb756d12f3305221e SHA-1: fb5b6ff3a10318207eca9773834cc05b108bd9f3 SHA-256: 60847f530197f0fc5b6694b37f2c9b582e7e8e54d4347cdb71256da4b9377183
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attack. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to educational worksheets, a common lure for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=year+3+adding+and+subtracting+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/bobikozemibulotumeguwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/244d33afd8a26956b1d7e9c137851266/sefiwukuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bea0db51cfb9af2e980b26c21eadc62e/4584250990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/318f60be6a085be42cf487d8f2d3e282/sitegoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9msqlij9lj90g137hjvo7k7rd/79823590307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735d564fa65---nitemopokutakobiripet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91ouic45q01lu8neunnhbb1r15/nowelunajimasibezixat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92d20a32ca---50478742981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97c0e78e1e---19894402235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503014650412320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/59196714397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c6a5650da69af948eb1fdfbd39cfb34/39908008951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27f7548fe6c48588a01934a4e52074bc/kaliwofemujitujipemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kols76b65fn60eh0g84e5gsl54/pajavowanijololulosijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff4840df87---pemowitipomixebijeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2mrmcqbofn00vvqnahk562rdl/42492890579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f489c9081---dojisizodalola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f25be1fa5---55074915759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE97 5588 bytes
SHA-256: 94f7ca7fdd225fe9545a11e9404b54dd1e15515b0edd235adeb033e3da004bab
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B2 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 160dc1393d05f4037ff9c101f2b4df35690a8348658157184264c7f45ea6a97b