Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 669996bd2472867d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:35:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3fb8e1dab38c31fcfcb98a7e63fb326d SHA-1: 3ae6eea1c4397ced93b4d8ea20b0b8352cf24089 SHA-256: 669996bd2472867d8c39da5a58dcbeeaf38a14d430648235e4a3e0c81f833a63
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to facilitate redirection to external sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious or compromised sites indicates a phishing or content-luring attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/90167922688.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e61cc1789457fc7c7b2c30bc0e17456c/lalitawitusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5d3e2097a---66347970000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleuriste79.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viperijuwetozifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d8352190c9507dcd07ba478b0d38445/bokutofotozanixokakapisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puginternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dipogisubipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/fumizuxezaxefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f51f16701f---rulewotowerikagik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/newezape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rc87ifo64v6i2b8fiqao3qe63/kamuwijisijize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/zodinobiwimidediz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-7/20210707045502343119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/274dfe03d2d4e6aa5c73c9a3e50f0271/52982434731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/59255695477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/wigiriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9440a11dc3e0bd913e0b9bb9ed8db20f/41808994566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/05/17/file/20210517_051905_160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161183ad77b40d---30790140034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c156d3d33c---19444941495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbstav.cz/file/78670167770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/funejenofamigezogujajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmar-e.de/userfiles/file/guzatowuvovakiwugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06da5cb517---45129478134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetnl.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210707_8900785D739AA5EF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69217a4dd6356e49225bc5f4890997a3/31815765228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stemcellhairclinic.com/files/files/debakaluwupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=full+day+diet+plan+for+weight+gain+pdfPDF 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_off0000beda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEDA 16116 bytes
SHA-256: adf8c8fb6885657d977359a22364027c229843b76fa429c544399ab84d26543a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e85a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE85A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10071 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 5fa20798bea20c7d055bd4e35ff222357a20aee7e5eac8302e07570e8dff93a1