Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67e96c8049862205…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:50:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5e62064470b18d8f814c2fbf0843caa7 SHA-1: 388ce15a79f7ea370a63f0ea064583cbe611efe1 SHA-256: 67e96c8049862205bf10affb9dba4f415fef9dfb432aa3460653853f3c908203
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the structure suggests it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content or for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive link farm points to a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=league+of+legends+mobile+android PDF link annotation
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/067f3634aef14d1766d55ebe1bd4e8ca/20142211925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70598713688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/taxibuvunelosenevazirad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f51c626d8a---18588093610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/vujitopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.andreapondika.cz/file/sebipuwonuliwutuwoxudat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a693bf5065ed8dbecc730ab74e7de5d4/pudoparilibafubotir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a2cc729df77da0c7b2d966547822835/nazawiduzijuvumiwabigep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/leban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefineart.com/assets/202109/files/20210909093018986850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makiriaszto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dorisonajejekaguwedonineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://showdetango.com/bafa/userfiles/file/sofomomelopene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/7738374116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a9de9c8f1---54013354328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revucue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fadijoxafibomuxinijaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.otevrenysklep.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/remidobewuvotulezibek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sheremet.com/img/90118024145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/wodugosewutomeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awarelaxcentrum.cz/user_files/file/lisozomijadexipuwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eed1ada54e---wurevimedewupufopifuzewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rts-3.ru/upload/files/23612119868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/gotivax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416521452ad---pezamaxiwat.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_off0000e031.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE031 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 290dfb4c7dfb12b90d5464d648c32aa2d9aaebc35612bd72f3b5300887902948
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110D4 18520 bytes
SHA-256: bb8dc9bddb9e541811c59f2f8c0697ef37e623b4dc24013149fc92ad8d5bf351