Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64017ba7bf91ece5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:56:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 7c224bb830e57d52029eb094259b48d2 SHA-1: b62649191c33a2c6a68a55d7292f23f79964f73b SHA-256: 64017ba7bf91ece5898079d37aa3af618012bbb61ddb60264057f6539e77fdbe
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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=the+walking+dead+season+10+episode+10+full+episode+free PDF link annotation
    • http://websurin.net/UserFiles/File/18499124291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwhopewell.com/uploads/files/wesimeberuxedusegemaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdtonline.vn/static/uploads/editor/files/49726385071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613acbc6bf0bb---32963261779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncunse.com/d/files/dizitosurafifaburudiruzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keramann.ru/uploads/files/10119264033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skazka76.ru/pic/userfile/38569349427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conganbacgiang.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/11144230776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapfenberger-schuetzenverein.at/userfiles/file/magizorexosavegiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161437c9674056---jifivafegukexuwagezejogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351931d291b---58049402791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipssecurityconsultants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ripuvuzigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagoproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91854615731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korvet-sp.ru/userfiles/file/litonuxosovetiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/womiduvof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexsafetyproducts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14725349066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/210909051356426646w6mf1g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.agencesramos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/reweboxegunexokovije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togelunited4d.com/contents/files/tanepufuvenajigiluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dopuskvsro.ru/UserFiles/13270612469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsphc.com/userfiles/file///xapodekisoferizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnik.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60348684403.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_off0000feea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEEA 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 335471d7ab99729a802fc91cdae084fb6e40281c70621b6bc306118fba56beaf
font_01_sfnt_off00011891.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11891 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130A3 18564 bytes
SHA-256: 7f1cec39ed6f8cf6ebc4b012f279d1a9d72cd8bcd4866674aa9bf5280973561b