Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d0883aa2910e282…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-06-05 10:28:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 1000691306eddd1e42090a067dd739be SHA-1: 53c19802e17909cbfb0a9168912f6e304764c365 SHA-256: 6d0883aa2910e2826288cb8d0c511810a6f0d641a39ffbb61887df0c6f63ed5b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful external content.

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=solving+nonlinear+second+order+differential+equations+matlab PDF link annotation
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/towixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/87344099331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://collegemahan.ir/basefile/collegemahanir/files/kinimotikajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3144030a179a97c780b5b5954e53985/15097872551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/14736785510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/29922973332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091106bd57db---nitud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a959d506736---22193838181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737408a6faf---50786441066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ah88pgl7e6ov21l0trduf47n02/mugodikezofusaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c3f3446e2---veren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ib0ei49ra8edjolvkensujdiud/54404029032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j4hlrhv7k5lmsm229f99bgmj7k/81676122946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d49bd974b2---1042261475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5is6emqo9h91g3bfbif825caev/xinog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607697bed5d2b---15908311688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/076bd634e14a1482745a3a07777df058/46867458314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/43739969561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3442e6805b68819944e154d3672c9f1b/65133230484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC11 5772 bytes
SHA-256: ff051a8e84443696305df667a8dba61b1ce90b089bfd8906e97635c230c2b8d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000efa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA3 11504 bytes
SHA-256: c69712d20bd0ad824a577b223ba1fe119f7622faa9e3f0ea471095b647198746