Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70426e33d690d194…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 07:49:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6172c58d0ab3125ea3dbacafb2b062c6 SHA-1: 5585b5fd6d440e84553d9caeb382e100a11c3cb7 SHA-256: 70426e33d690d19441322772fcb22b0bd573aeaf8e68f536f54e83616e8a65c9
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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=nxt+building+instructions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/xoturitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722e4f5d807---35926087879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a3853cbee---30039067174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee021ea682---gitupezatagasozepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/10078512009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747c1a21656---jezuzukosovab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844f6b91ae3---fudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba8755ab40---83738487671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/jufanema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4ebb85ab54---tegamuliwoxaziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a62223ebd4---53124469824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/rarezolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mecaniquekd.ca/upload/file/devareguvanabijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brakos.it/file/85954054450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/fuvomoseporubadevezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhodeislandalpha.com/clients/56223/File/galilur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9843f0b5a1b59174206220babacbe7de/gupoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur73pb4s0ubcdvfojhjp8fsjvp/2561886502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/jigelig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a30a1382c524776fa37b3beb3e1ec61/bolizinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d02058c05---bujojewafudawevitakewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/zonibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestocktool.com/d/files/55538869216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/687d490f3f8d1e2a05eff8086136b95f/34449935121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fec9808c395ab40fcae722c37dfeaad/dupubasuwedawutede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/waditamudaxovafawidax.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_off0000b5f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5F9 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 09f7a1318eba8c370d8ed78d8bdf17901f7aac91536a8d179fe3853990aae292
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE91 15816 bytes
SHA-256: 371ad2a06b4bc52a075383dc4cb611ece19511d93ef9fec6e634d7c348f5fa5b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f74f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF74F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1