Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6217fc06d2288dfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-07-28 11:19:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 478bf66f4646ee8b96be2161c9663f54 SHA-1: 4f9e23dffb57e6c58945912dc20c55c85a2ad5ea SHA-256: 6217fc06d2288dfcbf9c903c8d003f21f240b10ef9e7c1020ffcc0235e127052
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristic firings suggest the primary purpose is to lure users to external resources, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

Heuristics 6

  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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 http://aplus.to/userfiles/file/91121353596.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/21386493131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgeandmaryjones.com/clients/f/ff/ff66b05efb8f16ea353d8e6908bb1429/File/nonavireduvoxinavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/54570637830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologyforeverybody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87037186301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98aa1deafb---80551282218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b62db3ac1670f17d5d434f5380a4b1df/643010004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/94741416859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1i3254tgjipiibst255fgub6t0/zidedavasamerepajed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zelopave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23ef22d75eabde84d02b5ed467856c4f/golefavupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/81379905727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/nuraberinexenamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qoiu20akr0ktv6scltk4joqe19/bawaxazoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/22137218301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tms-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15317365399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a288dd3d39c---bojafuduloze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcc35af018b---51206765373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misosmile.com/upload/editor/files/zoledumoxumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28ed92a54ab8f0f7fbf6ac89c82e19f7/wunanegulowunike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/81120672680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/18334062222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/banolade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p8tluktqs73hnqa6sga7hi27b1/baxipejuloselemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/28006224635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=chest+finder+texture+pack+1.16.5PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f327.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF327 11296 bytes
SHA-256: f4a0dc3e20ac518693b27387bd2de243422d59c82f6a76dde592a56afc7c2fe3
font_01_sfnt_off00010dc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC2 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 2f37ea1b11ece644fef2f420fc5d5e29c860255d372ec3a711666e2589675489
font_02_sfnt_off00012370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12370 18288 bytes
SHA-256: 557be40689914a2218d20944f3d14614075482d4bc600fd0d2917ddc4ea513bf
font_03_sfnt_off000153c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1