Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67b039253084d787…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:56:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f2d9f7663fb7ec8ce4a93d8f69e8082a SHA-1: fcb2d14788d63076280ba633797fee2339c15f5c SHA-256: 67b039253084d787308928af54704c8a50bdbcc7c43185fa737212b5fdf99c2c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are structured as link farms. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of links to compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or manipulate search engine results. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+vrchat+avatar+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://siangyun.com/upfiles/editor/files/mogalakipadigoxezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77605fabbdb3368f3991cdf7b0a6bbdc/fupava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-6/20210606123234645953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/24183063656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinijewelry.com/userfiles/file/22540655400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872e8806852---kulodobix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fda6bab24---89546962369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68009b0b4cd852ff964409318670e088/40205818004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b3a40153e---42819820678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20d8fd010b---fukekironevunobugevikopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/13004565565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b548e3c32c6---40244310526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/52504003007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19cf281a0c1b2afeb7563dec06d09c0f/darosapubevulavoxalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f4e4d3ff6---mejegubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2p94esmtfa5dti2up8o0qafssp/72600803159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a44959c2c---31299869861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/94438694537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070abedbb79c---lofudotejozineluvesovok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2cc71g5mhrlklhdsrbkgn54qc/1673240222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alajuusa.ee/media/contents/file/fexodari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0de70e01a2857121b107b9284d281fee/xuwafubuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jooli.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90089268160.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_off0000ff32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011744.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11744 19736 bytes
SHA-256: e4354f8f29392b66d3ef650934958b38c59d92588ec2d0ad3c33f25f24157779
font_02_sfnt_off00014aa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AA0 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 4ee7a99627d5303945f7c583abb5858c266e9b5fe943087f4912ce68f7155d3c