Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f9d960f028bd1df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 12:18:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: db405b81786baaba7684b0455d961c34 SHA-1: 7a8fcd3f9bfca20b5c4a4a814908f05cc6649ecd SHA-256: 6f9d960f028bd1dfdf3b5d9b25b4bee1d1dd1a086fedcedeb768f67cf9c77062
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, directing users to download files. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external URIs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and heuristics point to a link farm designed to trick users into downloading potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mv+bit+app+download+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136656ca5c73---xiwavevujoveluzilesiwura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pribatu.lamilagrosaimport.com/images/files/xejepulefiwaxinov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corporatiegids.nl/uploads/files/22161279237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/20219141111494914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48778573547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341a086471f---lutidanazugitebulufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/lelame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bftt.marketsearching.com/upload/files/80715036808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/51589783424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paliukenas.lt/i/File/wivopigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/90247524513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/mavudamukunadopuletel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/lidokugarevetazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverksakuten.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70809809305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/99515302479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c1230569b8f59061b4c9ceab5332e0f/32164336627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/14609545418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.vn/uploads/images/files/81717774900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szigmetal.hu/editor_up/74933419797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorofilmes.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vonazolamekex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detikakdeti.ru/img/file/5470957540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epagneuls-bretons.fr/caningest/images/file/58293428087.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_off0000da3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA3C 18740 bytes
SHA-256: e5294bedf9e38a834132bf6d7c82738c5442b38840e803bf5cf2b26d5eba1b5f
font_01_sfnt_off00010b37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001234e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234E 10360 bytes
SHA-256: a00231b1f64dc4b9a09321ad3e3e1442c7fd78d050d6aefe95ad5bc94e806c2b