Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bc5dc64ac654d34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-14 03:10:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d5347615221eb69b4d9205476d8d8894 SHA-1: 91a0b66351494a0a60966c334b9e3ddfe52f21fe SHA-256: 6bc5dc64ac654d34e40ab1324be165937c60cb899f256ea9b24df1852a7ff1b0
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or obfuscate the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=1966+mustang+fastback+for+sale PDF link annotation
    • https://larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/18291434528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/70203931397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yarpb.ru/pic/userfile/baripoxulerexaridov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brakos.it/file/40758050886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/11097866423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83872537573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagakuratrading.com/js/upload/files/18121578712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/24119474073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakakmanis.com/contents/files/55982298008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mr-alian.com/upload/ckfinder/files/26434085561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387c53bf056---pufebibukalonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megamento.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/wojutobibabezorobomiluli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/ribitovomag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613224a2cd4b4---47983136629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9ac23f0e0---fuwafisevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370061eaaaa---fegudafitogire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spcinternational.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97113298649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/sivulaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mocphatreal.com/assets/images/ckfinder/files/25847633496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalping.ir/data/files/file/tutonaxopalavagegukobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio5r.com/userfiles/files/sekivufewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://style4.allwebeasy.com/userfiles/files/85411703392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vutivujalozofoxogoxada.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_off0000e2a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fabf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABF 11212 bytes
SHA-256: efb3f27584727050cf947c96ffc6409328a48d11a417e07cd6e7baa99b3feecd
font_02_sfnt_off00011506.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11506 17788 bytes
SHA-256: dfec5c8d3940d5615acd233e3192a7b3574c68af49688ec5c19361a2f6ec2006