Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a93a6009aed6375…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-27 06:37:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bdfd78b26163510ddc8eb4a6a5520def SHA-1: be29f402fe793e9aebaaf08bf904ff4b19dbd1dd SHA-256: 6a93a6009aed63757756146c984eb12e05c68568f5a38a0af0b3a5f4c523e477
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of multiple external URI heuristics further supports its malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=skam+france+episode+1 PDF link annotation
    • https://rafaela-motores.com/userfiles/file/ladumanifekafeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkabiji.com/contents/files/noxizejarege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonmysliwskirys.pl/userfiles/file/wiwowaketojeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osstemcardiotec.com/files/fckeditor/file/1105745265614503bfac35b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaam4ijnm94goqr0ema2mqa6b1/35489404105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148fcb8b9ecb---82256136444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/nutumutumulijowasuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoithanhhang.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/99741236246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image/files/zifalejitadakobejexuxaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yyfxsw.com/upload/files/gegit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzlmjx.com/data/home/bxu2343160066/htdocs/uploadfile/files/reposigof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phamtrangia.site/upload/files/riberubaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/motojegovuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckattorneys.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/46764205350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ocean-ex.com/images/blog/file/kesuguganofatepogofifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/mirowuvaxeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maketmaster.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gekeledivokupuwovemokidej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/kiwutefisoverorobutusili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divodizain.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gerujar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotuziwegepaxuripodejoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/tifizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/50069979385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f781ec0c94---17889217154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/kazivuvulugufujosilesute.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_off0000b61a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB61A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE2C 18012 bytes
SHA-256: 3c9a83055a0ca52893e09821ff631c4fc6cc70eb47aa2e6cf7939faa9e5f5e9f
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCBB 10856 bytes
SHA-256: d946e2eec7e8504feebde7217ad1bbe316e5638fcc1be06c6696d97347ac7758