Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64bee84c3978bc18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-16 13:50:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 98b7cb87292e5a54ca5a1a103a1e445b SHA-1: 107b7976040a58d2d3f43c5bb86e90cd05da5708 SHA-256: 64bee84c3978bc18164a5b01a97ddbd2df72e57e343b789701442466f58c2187
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of algorithmically generated URLs further supports a malicious intent, likely to lure users into clicking through to a secondary malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c532d6193af432f3f18aaa3a2372ed7/wakajo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/baratoxoxojazajiximoteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cae3e22eff---75656205594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magyaringatlanadatbazis.hu/dev/_user/file/wafor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9e8d277b75---41909646777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2cdfca5c0c---paraxame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd8f8aa9782---59907281640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5920c7b35ec81faf29d9c80a25ca2e10/xabanatej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/rasaponewokunalijezuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d18fbcea759666d75f7d4b75d0aa7ea/27089340337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9789925891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gpjeo35s7u9kmjla8ier1r8teh/luwafidusan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benefielddarrenfordhicksunited.com/clients/2/21/2186b72972973349411f8b90e6071e14/File/sulovutiwipaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608788bea6896---disakalipevadixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.knickmeier.net/images/pageimg/file/70553945820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/rufuloparusekexuropet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e6a33f210f0df7e1214f5489cb8399a/26835988854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718d2472e67---7098292241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app8itebarandgrill.com/admin/images/file/pewusolagezip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b395e99018ba2d7aab52685c579c11e8/ninonitavonorapon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96084089372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/pisinazijugigelemariti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morgancountyoh.com/userimages/doxugovefipemozigapevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/535848661fc2600136d71ed6b33c9e61/52262637688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/vaduxabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=give+me+example+of+exclamatory+sentencePDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB5C 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 73d9c340edaaf4e2558ffc285801f943600d58f2f1920a48a27ce4104fd6c071
font_01_sfnt_off000104e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF3 16644 bytes
SHA-256: cb3adfe206cc95212f6e0a5c44dd58ab049e8e41c396e8158f3ff0aca1940957