Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 613e385c4dfe2b28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:38:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b7bd30146911f8e3d46a9a863d55a4a4 SHA-1: a86e3056facbab668a3f933037a643d9be8c987d SHA-256: 613e385c4dfe2b28536e86774402c5bcf951eb93ee88699fd1d53724af468823
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of these links and the ML detection strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+is+the+mid+atlantic+ridge+formed PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles//file/mirovawiwaletasurenek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.barrau-philippe-sedeco.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44819117428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/77606058008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1t2u7fv9lhrh2cjvkbks8rp74f/78465942218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ff00405b9d36ef5e10c1123e141cf06/85034069585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufh5an3echreaikm9bj23pi334/34041934132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/viwowuwiwagumafabifelowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongninhphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/vavabudute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/66584888051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tipresentoio.it/images/file/89799944516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb7f1e275322a1a8719147c4c4d4c128/53827907268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/lulama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/guh1bo3liv868qi2nv6n2bfks2/37901600628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/lufomopofuzoziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d5b0b161f---30329519132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///90399541797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2696100e03---72565632498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhome-listings.com/userfiles/files/kamuvijexurowaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41428ce53051b0543b95674f0d73ab8a/91388221903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tpd5j5cdf31n6tol008152hju7/91679152514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deb73af99c1ee059d0966cab98dc3113/jeludopora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bfb8e043db---narudapezamugukanepuxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7c5e46337---rujatagolalovaboxurani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/divurenidogoramexexoziz.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FE 11000 bytes
SHA-256: d13dec257545ac4c46b75429e398ac1006599d54957254d95df6f4e4a799d5c2
font_01_sfnt_off00010c32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012444.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12444 19360 bytes
SHA-256: c48c4ccb7e911a7ddf1dd584a43d5df29db507d24b601c5281fb9cf3b7c8a639