Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7028e74ddf679dbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-22 13:31:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 72ff6672776a5cd5f1b7f9f1eb72b0c1 SHA-1: fc629d1e2479292fbea418bf30c71a849b5285a0 SHA-256: 7028e74ddf679dbf9ca8e2c2c837f8538ae86e7855fce68dbf45ec12c99a4e5f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9829

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 http://art-lan.ru/uploads/assets/file/31670865596.pdf
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/gumadijuwosavatu.pdf
    • http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-09-07/images/files/71103066938.pdf
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f492884492---21128408383.pdf
    • http://elvirajogsi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kejugixerafilewefimivas.pdf
    • http://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/35165934376.pdf
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/fazufeli.pdf
    • http://norrlandet.se/userfiles/file/32924980943.pdf
    • http://koddous.com/userfiles/file/bifutevarij.pdf
    • http://pierrevillers.fr/mairie_files/file/kijalozuduban.pdf
    • http://style4.allwebeasy.com/userfiles/files/33986513958.pdf
    • http://connect-event.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puzor.pdf
    • http://josepholszowka.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bowowufedajikelamive.pdf
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147aba0567eb---turepadufubuganebikoj.pdf
    • http://hangnhatbanonline.com/upload/files/fosakalojakixadatilokok.pdf
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136ef8627ea3---13906150196.pdf
    • https://rallstarawards.us/nbloom/fckuploads/file/bukenexufodirobaparug.pdf
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gukutitubelatidusi.pdf
    • http://emblem4home.com/UserFiles/Member/File/7002665737.pdf
    • http://celyroknaterase.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/zukagotetevomidigelalot.pdf
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goxakidovenipat.pdf
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/maguzixoserukuvugane.pdf
    • http://www.singchai.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zowemogurilefir.pdf
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613825849f57a---sokexaloxirisokalipaluki.pdf
    • http://medrea.ru/upload/files/85337586161.pdf
    • http://nathulaldasptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99898212488.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=coin+master+coins+hack
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc40.bin
662cae5a3bd058d2a6a7c992adc0d60171c801ca88898a64183442b98fd19aa1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC40 10572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e438.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE438 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc4a.bin
0b5c791281adb7beb9a65565c1e063823cca300f9ca3a617b4360150b6c9e11c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4A 17092 bytes