Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 689ecd17d74bfdc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.7 KB Created: 2021-06-18 02:01:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cc1e9389c2dfacc5f1b0aa4434fe3963 SHA-1: f5ae1b767b89894a3d91de1cd99438daae802c71 SHA-256: 689ecd17d74bfdc75b3f2ed1a911d3104167346388f82fa3e8d97b6575616239
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of embedded URLs points towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the ML detection suggest it's likely part of a larger attack chain, potentially involving JavaScript for obfuscation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://mbcasc.net/imgs/file/9334994826.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5f1cf0c22---darogovoruwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f80a15b6ff---28126670910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e691ed8bd---sitazetafikidilasafibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dce05fd933292807e7e6d173411385b/kizufofegegobifabejirelad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6ecb96b6e---tigululedapupumamoris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074474f35f24---34088982588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a6354f9ff8ffd43c4a17c2248d01f46/43175190755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/39634703968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09a28221e23b5732e544e07daff67e66/tevakuperelatamamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607463608ebbb---74962657446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activesolutionelectric.com/images/file/88237032856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc445d9b87622eb522f0accd6520d8bf/buzefopugepigizujegije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/899741a7579a7b6f511a1b59d5108599/19405707564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8875181f7---32507954540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/64399464008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+quadratic+formula+worksheet+answersPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b8fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8FA 3604 bytes
SHA-256: b48cc8fe340d6feba7bbae0338ab2f1edba474e985ab157b672726d061f11860
font_01_sfnt_off0000c5d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5D8 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 53393eac569ed23f477324108fb6a84a1bcd3e1492511f31bdc3f409f2cd621c
font_02_sfnt_off0000d871.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD871 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 9a7fec0e349007951c5a50ea5b0820f993984f03f050b56822524a23e61aa69a