Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 724b81bd25484761…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:57:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cf7610b52101e32668ca8f2000c5d8d6 SHA-1: 5b8d5e113052201f965962d4a926d5489bbcfc00 SHA-256: 724b81bd25484761d38dcdf5a7310addc4944964b887fb4507ac4cc4a570cec4
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially harmful external content, possibly for SEO poisoning or to host further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d945bdde9bdffb9003df08607abc9e32/84385943234.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://togclick.com/media/userFckfiles/file/81218147311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminarz.online/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/xaregul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161421630ebc73---bavevexatoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baliretreatcenter.com/olabali_ci/media/images/newsfiles/fudugofojulive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links-europe.com/images/blog/file/juvanumexosugozedilibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoservice.cz/upload/file/38734917049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354c7eb821b---fupusumor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/1281592677613ded09537b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoybowlramenandpoke.com/uploads/files/14718155543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esperanzadeavila.com/fotos/file/78275277513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etabetasurvey.com/userfiles/files/30325959265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kafarekotopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibshospitals.com/userfiles/file/bajivajebupome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb9816084e560b26e71b0dc67af6bf85/sefaxivowufasino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/71313917600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kool-house.com/upload/editor/file/25017920265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://back2wood.de/userfiles/file/79501089174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/21592747411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penmypoem.com/new/admin/uploadfiles/file/94796777925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145ce8e46e64---fusibagixutaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/98911864105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawrenceyezersky.com/userfiles/file/17267450411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rintoyo.com/userfiles/file/60980108815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613607749dce7---dozewezuvupubezugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midospa.com/upload/files/10760061129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjqyms.com/filespath/files/20210919023309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=completing+the+square+a+levelPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d186.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD186 20432 bytes
SHA-256: 775193e8284d5635fe15654200bade8ed25661726231eb71f326ad497e63f8f7
font_01_sfnt_off0001064f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1064F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E66 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 5be47c6f9a34cb3ad32e740efb169be1ee7f2a4d95377877fcd14a23f5dde292