Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69c48815b876844b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 00:05:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 545ca0d5158772f2388d844697ab3688 SHA-1: d366d33f3eb51649d566b7ed59cf43cb87aa141e SHA-256: 69c48815b876844bce5d2c21b35dd6597dc61be1281d61ac2705d25714f78294
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. The sample also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. These elements suggest the PDF is designed to redirect users to external resources, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=angry+birds+blast+island+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://minuspk.ru/minuspk.ru/userfiles/file/53419632833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sz-nuoyi.com/Upload/file/2021091605030898879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/34211192924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dijitalsanat.link/upload/files/fijixedumelanirefaxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copacndg.com/images/uploads/files/79215198062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/15730814016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfasg.jp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24579361044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/tanulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visit-pune.com/userfiles/file/lepevufivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongcohonda.com/userfiles/file/nurusitufivasajaxupawotax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c26c8a089d---84134090827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/voresenunepupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georeno.ca/userfiles/files/29543936816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.erealitysolutions.com/tennisontario/assets/appsadmin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74037060898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6aca83be508c93d844325aea3146343a/kixujabowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfaspot.com/resimler/files/vusob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santabruna.cl/upload/file/64574543864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jatizixuvupoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d421509325673cc4db94eee5df17795/67156243592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/34090509489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://algarestofos.pnh.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59747698896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herbwaterthailand.com/userfiles/files/lenojaxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oroblupiscine.it/userfiles/files/64642410557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutunggiahungoto.com/uploads/files/luxixebam.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_off0000c2ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2ED 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 85ad45d8b5716cd5d5b0dd66e3a59dd58dacd3d6db2745dc9514c550629d1553
font_01_sfnt_off0000eecf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEECF 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 0c6c92e3360a7f761c5cd9ccabe7285f58d710959c3c97995367b1742bdd9c1b
font_02_sfnt_off000106de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1