Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e0d5464b4578f13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:52:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3264f6a04cc9ba732e18510e0070ec87 SHA-1: f6438432732e85d63b126062c54f727209b4ba65 SHA-256: 6e0d5464b4578f1396708d65902526a56905686a6fb6e2a0180c4010c15fceb0
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external URIs points towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=radiological+anatomy+of+spine+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/gisadilafifupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744199f1dc5---rodubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b454e4a011bc2f9b3ee0a043f7914eb/96372442194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3f1bb79360---tipagoladidizivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detskeihriska.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/webimosubopedujategelijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubelikes.com/ci/userfiles/files/pinovenabujavunawagevet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834bc36ecb3---68100435049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/10147142841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarissoft.com/img/userfiles/files/xazugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/27762973415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be51594672c---kepidopukuvujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b604c0795---62512200907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f7aaef1527fb1fbf2ce6b64c6ff24cf/jijexeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah168.com/contents//files/66294310835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkmjg.com/images/upload/File/zakon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szamosiszerviz.hu/feltoltott/files/85414827754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajndoktor.cz/images/file/files/70155167802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarica.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafirunax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/zuwafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdientunhk.com/upload/files/kuwewimarogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/jakumevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/15757175794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/2128031948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/79969771720.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_off0000dfae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFAE 11024 bytes
SHA-256: e0a8b0a3b1f631c42dccc671ae155a6f67641799f17a5fdb17aa55fa9b62c87e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f91f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF91F 17264 bytes
SHA-256: 1425be8416c7b61847fd4f51e324a8e50fe66ace88e76cd6f43f3b64c4138990
font_02_sfnt_off000125e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1