Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ce521dcb1eb8791…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:10:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7b97863893ac171b0406d8dd4e9a4cd0 SHA-1: 6c82680d707145d68b9904d339320d4a5c1f6773 SHA-256: 6ce521dcb1eb879149054082c40be72454b6e49fafc72436524dfb71dcb81c22
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. These links are likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues about its purpose beyond the link farm heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a5c0cb894---57784525004.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/toxixesuxawozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24197b1fe9acff620e79094662888818/62154926080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okulsanmalatya.com/imgup/file/tesamut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73992681568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmarzillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ranukoxutodujebumetimako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/pirava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1nuv172gb26tl9n27ij8i3ho4/40635970473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fizoxijota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e534mvhvisk3n2ghr7odr29tbd/pufepuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f6c3d4afc34213649ca486ae2be62c1/88232780086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609948394bc81---gonunuwegul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/nexusipepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northcoteplaza.com/userfiles/file/gudoxadekafogadadoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congnghethucpham24h.com/upload/files/bawinapofixevupelagim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e4fa61e4a---51150909186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/30442623999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3acb195802fb15c74e467860ec91122/larew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b859cb4347f---773182235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50cd4fa81baed247ad1becdc896a3f60/34630781698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhnienxp.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/83762906801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/338731600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607870bb39844---24005218266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/95928329939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=sri+rudram+namakam+chamakam+sanskrit+pdfPDF 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://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_off00013ea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EA3 10852 bytes
SHA-256: f0ee1e846440cccab8db212be34a892f9c29a452d1e987710cbc984a1972f9ed
font_01_sfnt_off00015779.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15779 18616 bytes
SHA-256: 2bdb0a8c997c260df6b9808b4e710cb1d80205861007a14c7ef1422735b5eacf
font_02_sfnt_off000187a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x187A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1